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Woodley Airways

Alaska jet carrier, merged with Western Airlines 1932–1967

Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA) was an Alaska carrier operating jets as well as larger piston engine aircraft, a category of airline certificated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the Federal agency that, at the time, tightly regulated US air transportation. The airline started in 1932 as Woodley Airways, a sole proprietorship of founder Arthur G. Woodley, who remained in control of the airline through its sale to Western Air Lines in 1967, by which time it had extended its service beyond southern Alaska to Seattle.2 It ceased to exist in 1945.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1932Founded1
  • HeadquartersAnchorage1

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Connie, Pacific Northern Airlines
Photo: born1945, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA) was an Alaska carrier operating jets as well as larger piston engine aircraft, a category of airline certificated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the Federal agency that, at the time, tightly regulated US air transportation. The airline started in 1932 as Woodley Airways, a sole proprietorship of founder Arthur G. Woodley, who remained in control of the airline through its sale to Western Air Lines in 1967, by which time it had extended its service beyond southern Alaska to Seattle.2

Timeline

  1. 1945Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1932Founded Founded1

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