About Us
Alaska Adventures Opens
ALaska Adventures broke away from Northern Pacific Airways to become its own airline. Prior, Alaska Adventures was a Bush Division for Northern Pacific Airways.
First FLight
Alaska Adventures started operations on September 10, 2007 with its first flight from Z41 to 6AK5. The first flight was flown with the DHC3 PZL Otter for FS2004.(non aka livery)
Our First Painted Plane
Our first livery rolled out. Our first official fleet consisted of the FS2004 DHC3 Super Otter. A few days later the DHC3 PZL versions aswell. Both models by Eugene Heyart
Beechcraft King Air 200
On March 8, 2008 Alaska Adventures adds our newest plane, the Beechcraft King Air 200.
Alaska Adventures Tour
ALaska Adventures first Tour started. The Alaska Adventures Tour consisted of 19 legs through out Alaska. Starting and endind in Lake Hood Airstrip (Z41). Tours were calculated manually.
phpVMS
On July 22, 2009 Alaska Adventures drops FSACARS to move over to phpVMS management system. Making everything more automated. phpVMS is still used today for our management software.
100th Pilot
September 3, 2009 Alaska Adventures hit a small milestone when the 100th pilot joined the Alaska Adventres creew.
Bluebox v1.0
May 1, 2010 our BlueBox v1.0 was delivered. Replacing the outdated FSACARS. Bluebox v1.0 was our custom ACARS software that is still used today.
Tour Module
January 2011 Alaska Adventures added a much needed Tour Module. This module would make all tours fully automated, no more doing the tours manually.
5 Year Anniversary
Alaska Adventures celebrated there 5 year anniversary on September 10, 2012. We had a special tour to remeber our 5 years in service.
Cargo Ops
June 2014 saw the addition to our popular Cargo Ops. Cargo Ops is a popular module that randomly creates ops for Cargo runs.
New Livery
April 2016 was the start of the new livery and new aircraft in our fleet that we still use today. This was also the time we started using P3D and flushed out what wasnt working with the new simulator.
10 Year anniversary
We made it to 10 years in service. Alaska Adventures had a ten year anniversary tour with a special 10 year anniversay livery on a DHC3 for the tour.
Tour Center
Out with the old outdate Tour Module that we had since 2011. This Tour Center gives more options on the admin side.
New Look
ALaska Adventures branded a new look. Starting witht he website and eventually with the fleet. We droped the the dark blue and exchanged witht he light blue you see today.
Carenado AC500S
Our latest paint to be added. Modeled by Carenado, the Aero Commander 500S is the latest aircraft to be added to ALaska Adventures. Painted by Reiner Test.