The first Boeing 727 passenger flight took off from Wrangell about noon on June 1, 1976, heading to Petersburg and Juneau, inaugurating Alaska Airlines' jet service to town.
June 1 will be the golden anniversary of Alaska Airlines jet service to Wrangell and Petersburg, marking when the first scheduled Boeing 727 passenger flight touched down in the communities in 1976.
Before the arrival of the 104-passenger jets, which provided daily same-plane service to and from Seattle, travelers had to take a plane with one-fifth the passenger capacity and catch a connecting flight in Ketchikan or Juneau.
"It would be nice to get on a jet at Wrangell and relax all the way to Seattle, with a stop at Ketchikan," a Wrangell Sentinel columnist predicted in January 1975. "It woul...
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