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Cabins and Classes
It was a little quieter around here last week in terms of airplanes. That’s because six of them took off with supplies and staff headed for Brooks Range Bible Camp, about 60 miles north of the Arctic Circle and deep in the mountains. Last Spring, we received...
Off and Running
It is almost impossible to walk across the grass runway without stepping in moose poop. They’ve been everywhere on the property, leaving their scat around houses, hangars, and airplanes. Moose are clearly king around here, roaming wherever they please from October to...
Kick-off Week 2023
It’s been one packed week! Dwayne picked me up at the Anchorage airport on Saturday afternoon with Mother’s Day flowers in hand and an Outback dinner afterwards. What a great husband! We picked up groceries on the way home and just like that, I was back at the Ranch!...
Off to Alaska!
We stood in front of the truck and trailer, which we’d just finished loading in front of our Pennsylvania home, and snapped a picture, followed by hugs and promises to see each other soon. Dwayne King and Bill Reynolds, a fellow member of Antrim Brethren in Christ...
Super hero Jesus
Our church is reading through the Bible over the course of two years. I’ve just finished the book of John. Have you ever read something in the Bible that you’d read many, many times before and it hits you fresh—you see it in a new way? That happened to me while I was...
Our Brothers and Sisters Around the World
Most of the time we wear blinders. Like a horse focused on getting to the next place, we trot along in life intent on the job at hand. With our limited focus, it’s natural and easy to forget about others and their needs, especially those far away with whom we have...
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A Piece of Yukon History touches down in Whitehorse
Yukon News, May 1, 2015
By Joel Krahn
Seventy years old and still roaring like the day it was built, a Second World War era DC-3 rattled into Whitehorse, the drone from the twin props announcing its arrival.
In a different era this would have been an everyday sight, but those who watched a commemorative landing on Wednesday afternoon saw a unique glimpse of the territory’s transportation history.
Dwayne King, a veteran bush pilot from Alaska with 49 years in the air under his belt, is leading a crew that is flying a vintage DC-3 from Florida to Siberia. “It’s part of your heritage, actually, in Whitehorse,” he said during a presentation at the Yukon Transportation Museum. “It’s part of what developed and opened up this part of the country.”
North to Alaska Flying with Bush Pilots Above the Arctic Circle
AOPA Flight Training, May 2013
By Kathy Dondzila
“I’m crossing the river,” radioed the Kingdom Air Corps pilot flying a Cessna 182. He had departed Fairbanks a half hour before us, where our six airplanes—a Cessna 206, the Skylane, two Skyhawks, a Cessna 150, and a 152—flying together on our way north from King Ranch (AK59), had stopped for fuel. An Aeronca Champ and a Taylorcraft were already at our destination, and a Piper Aztec would fly up in a couple of days.
We were headed north, way north—60 miles beyond the Arctic Circle—to a private grass strip in the middle of the mountains of the Brooks Range. The 150 and the 152 had a couple hours head start from our base in Chickaloon, Alaska, east of Anchorage; the two Skyhawks had departed next; and the Cessna 182 shortly after. I was flying dual with our chief pilot, Dwayne King, founder of Kingdom Air Corps…
At Home in the Kingdom
AOPA Pilot, February 2013
By Kathy Dondzila
The deep growl of the Cessna Stationair’s Continental IO-520 engine resonated in the afternoon air. Some of the village folks who had come to say goodbye covered their ears as it roared down the runway; most of the kids grinned at its deafening departure.
Dwayne King, founder of Kingdom Air Corps, had the heavy hauler in the air less than halfway down the runway, and wagged its wings at the waving crowd below. He would miss the teens he had just flown home to Anaktuvuk Pass (AKP) from a week of camp in the Brooks Range. They watched until the Cessna’s rumble faded as the airplane followed the John River around Kollutuk Mountain on its way back to Brooks Range Bible Camp, Kingdom Air Corps’ aviation-themed youth camp…
RESUMING THE JOURNEY
A series of articles on a pilot’s return to flight.
Aopa.org, March-August 2012
by Kathy Dondzila
After a nine-year hiatus, Kathy Dondzila is climbing back into the left seat of a general aviation airplane—all in preparation for some flights in Alaska this summer.
In 1975 I was living in the tiny town of Tok, Alaska (population 350). Friends of mine, Dwayne and Carolyn King, missionaries with Central Alaskan Mission (now Send International Missions), were based there at the time. Dwayne, a pilot, invited me to fly with him to Tetlin, an Athabascan Indian village about 20 miles southeast and a gorgeous flight over the rugged mountains.
I had no idea, then, how skilled Dwayne’s piloting was as he gently put the airplane down on the short, soft, snow-covered runway. I just knew I liked it!