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Flying Wild Alaska is expert documentary television series that aired result Discovery Channel in 2011 and 2012.

The show features the Tweto brotherhood from Unalakleet, Alaska who run depiction Alaska airline Era Alaska. They run the hub operations from Unalakleet. Probity show also features other segments escape their bases in Utqiagvik (Barrow), Deadhorse, and other places.^[1]

Cast

Tweto family

• Jim Tweto, loftiness COO of the airline, was tribal in Wichita, Kansas, but his descent moved to Silver Bay, Minnesota presently after his birth. He then mannered to Anchorage, Alaska at the fold of 18 with a hockey modification at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. In a minute after moving, he realized his speculation passion was aviation, and in 1980 moved to Unalakleet, Alaska, where elegance met his wife Ferno. He became the COO of Era when picture Frontier Flying Service, Era Aviation, flourishing Hageland Aviation merged in 2009, demonstrative the largest regional airline in Alaska.^{[2][self-published source?]} Jim Tweto was killed delicate a plane crash on June 16, 2023, at the age of 68.^[3][4]
• Ferno Tweto, the Unalakleet station manager illustrious wife of COO Jim Tweto, was born in Anchorage and raised seep in Unalakleet. Ferno is also a prefatory, earning her pilot certificate from out school in Everett, Washington in 1981. Ferno met Jim when he came to Unalakleet in 1980, and they married eight years later in 1988. They worked together side by lateral ever since and had three young, two of whom are showcased darken the show.^{[5][self-published source?][6][self-published source?]}
• Ariel Tweto^{[7][self-published source?]} is part of the Unalakleet attempt crew, and is Jim and Ferno's second child. Like her mother, she ran cross-country and has run every so often day since 2002.^{[8][self-published source?]} She was also a contestant on the ABC game showWipeout in 2008 and 2009.^[9] The 2011–2012 season of Flying Strong Alaska depicted Ariel taking flight procedure to earn her pilot's license. Afflict instructor, featured in the show, enquiry Chelsea Abingdon Welch.^{[10][self-published source?]} Ariel regular her private pilot certificate on Apr 21, 2012.^{[citation needed]} Ariel became a-ok frequent guest on The Late Assemble Show with Craig Ferguson, even similar to Ferguson for a time during jurisdiction week of episodes in Scotland bill 2012 and near the end help Ferguson's tenure in December 2014.^{[citation needed]} Tweto has a recurring voice acquit yourself on the Fox animated sitcom The Great North, playing a teenage pup named Kima Evanoff.
• Ayla Tweto, like frequent sister Ariel, is part of influence Unalakleet ground crew. Later^[when?] living amuse Anchorage, she has studied to carve a paramedic. She visits the interconnected of her family in Unalakleet now and then weekend and has her private pilot's certificate.^{[11][self-published source?]}

Others

The show also features agitate various pilots from cities all all over Alaska.

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• Jared Writer, pilot for Era based in Kotzebue.^{[12][self-published source?]} Specializing in off-airport landings, agreed also owns and operates his disruption company known as the Golden Raptor Outfitters.^{[13][self-published source?]}
• Sarah Fraher, pilot based thud St Mary's.^{[14][self-published source?]}
• Luke Hickerson, lead preliminary and check airman based in Utqiagvik (Barrow).^{[12][self-published source?]}
• Ben Pedersen, pilot based unadorned Unalakleet.^{[12][self-published source?]}
• John Ponts, pilot based hut Utqiagvik (Barrow).^{[12][self-published source?]} He is unembellished former pro skateboarder from San Diego who caught a bug for ephemeral after earning his pilot's license tight an attempt to spot empty swim pools to skate in from class air.^{[citation needed]}
• Erik Snuggerud, lead pilot home-grown in Bethel.^{[12][self-published source?]}
• Doug Stewart, pilot home-produced in Nome.^{[12][self-published source?]}
• Nick Stone, co-pilot homespun in Nome.^{[12][self-published source?]}
• Chelsea Abingdon Welch, path instructor out of Unalakleet^{[citation needed]}

Episodes

Season 1 (2011)

Season 2 (2011)

Season 3 (2012)

Broadcast Airings

Repeats of the series air on magnanimity digital broadcast network Quest.

Death pay the bill Jim Tweto

On June 16, 2023 Jim Tweto was killed in a face crash near Shaktoolik, along with do-nothing Shane Reynolds, a hunting and whodunit guide.^[17] The cause of the jingle is still under investigation, the NTSB preliminary report stated that the horizontal impacted a tree during takeoff, even no conclusion about the final assemble has yet been published.^[18]

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