… Alaska residents have, or are working on obtaining, a pilot’s license.
Many of the smaller aircraft trade their wheels for pontoons when the ice leaves the rivers. Pontoon planes are so prevalent that the Fairbanks International Airport also has a lake next to the main runway for these planes. This is a 1952 Piper Super Cub. It can take off and land in as little as a couple hundred feet at half the speed you drive on the interstate. There’s many of these old craft still very much in service and well maintained.