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Ice Airport Alaska
Ice Airport Alaska

Ice Airport Alaska

—A chronicle of the daily challenges of the airport staff who manage to keep the facility open, freight flowing and passengers flying all despite weather that regularly dips to -36 degrees and wind speeds that typically exceed 100 mph.
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    Bear Knuckle Flight
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  • Bear Knuckle Flight

    Fish and Wildlife aviators battle Arctic conditions to track down a polar bear population, a bush pilot races fading daylight to save a business, Anchorage field crews battle to clear an icy runway, and CBP officers investigate.
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  • To The Ends Of The Earth

    Pilots fly over the dangerous Brooks mountains, so engineers can fix a remote weather station, a veteran pilot tests a rookie on their bush plane landings, crews fight ice and wind to save a winter festival, and engineers race.
    Upcoming
  • Live And Let Fly

    A lone bush pilot races to stock ultra-marathon checkpoints, a heli pilot risks a sling-load at 4,000 feet and comes inches from disaster, and a vintage DC-3 plane is a village's only lifeline as a storm closes in.
    Upcoming

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Season 16 of 6 Episodes

  • As winter approaches, the maintenance crews at Ted Stevens International Airport battle many elements to keep things running.

  • Thanksgiving weekend and severe storms challenge the staff at Ted Stevens Airport with heavy traffic, heavy snow, and even a lightning strike.

  • An electrical failure, a rogue moose, and a supply run challenge the staff and pilots at Ted Stevens Airport.

  • The arrival of U.S. evacuees escaping the coronavirus outbreak in China; a daring helicopter airlift; punishing snow.

  • Record snowfall and vicious headwinds threaten the runways and a seaplane pilot.

  • The Ted Stevens crew faces a host of challenges, including a truck accident, a record day of snowfall, and the return of a wild moose.

Record to Watch Later

7 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Coronavirus Crisis
    Fuel's Gold
    Relentless Winter
    Emergency Landing
    Whiskey and Water
    War Planes and Sled Dogs
    Mayday
  • Coronavirus Crisis

    The arrival of U.S. evacuees escaping the coronavirus outbreak in China; a daring helicopter airlift; punishing snow.
    Upcoming
  • Fuel's Gold

    Father-son aviators battle turbulence to refuel a remote mine, bush pilots fight an aerial jam to reach Alaska's biggest sled race, and the Coastguard turn a C-130 into a bomber to drop supplies on an isolated beach.
    Upcoming
  • Relentless Winter

    Record snowfall and vicious headwinds threaten the runways and a seaplane pilot.
    Upcoming
  • Emergency Landing

    Witness wild weather, emergency landings, animal invaders and pandemic panics at Alaska's Ted Stevens Airport.
    Upcoming
  • Whiskey and Water

    A crisis in a remote Alaskan village, a grounded cargo 737 and alcohol smugglers keep the pilots and crews busy.
    Upcoming
  • War Planes and Sled Dogs

    An armed, suicidal man and a suspicious powdery substance threaten the staff of Ted Stevens while rough weather may ground a 70-year-old cargo plane.
    Upcoming
Ice Airport Alaska

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A chronicle of the daily challenges of the airport staff who manage to keep the facility open, freight flowing and passengers flying all despite weather that regularly dips to -36 degrees and wind speeds that typically exceed 100 mph.

Starring

Kerry Shale

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