Scenes from Weeks Field in Fairbanks, Alaska, during 1935 include a Bellanca CH300 Pacemaker on wheel-skis taking off from a muddy runway, the same aircraft landing on wheels, a Stinson Reliant, a patient being transferred to an ambulance belonging to Dr. Frank De La Vergne, and passengers arriving in Fairbanks. De La Vergne was a physician, and served as Fairbanks mayor from 1925-1931 (B&W/Silent/16mm film).
This is an excerpt from AAF-243 from the Bob & Marion Hall Collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department of the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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