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Pioneer aviator Carl Ben Eielson

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Pioneer aviator Carl “Ben” Eielson (1897-1929) was the first Alaskan to secure an airmail contract with the government, flying an open-cockpit de Havilland between Fairbanks and McGrath on February 21, 1924. Alaska State Library.

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