Alaska Pilot Flies Students to School Daily for Four Decades

While students across the country typically ride buses to reach their classrooms, children in the remote Alaska community of South Naknek experience a very different daily commute. For nearly four decades, pilot Jon King has been transporting students to school by aircraft on almost every school day.

The remote location of South Naknek in rural Alaska makes traditional school transportation methods impractical, leading to this unique aviation-based solution for getting students to their education.