AW Flight Number TRA004

[Aharon Dayan]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a darn nice cargo hauling trip recreating historic real world Northern Air Cargo 737-200C flight from PANC Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport located 5 miles southwest of downtown Anchorage to PAOM Nome Airport located two nautical miles west of the central business district of Nome

The official AW flight number is called TRA004.

Cargo being loaded into the plane. Yep somebody in Nome got rich either from fishing catches or oil strike findings enough to buy Porchse!!



Cargo door closing after finishing the cargo loading



Doing pre-flight checklist including testing rudder and all flaps which you can see the tail rudder being tested



Making sure the cargo door is properly shut



Leaving cargo apron to taxi to taxiway K



Entering into taxiway K to make long taxiing to runway 07L



Still continuing on long taxi while some driver of oil refuel tanker is trying to beat the plane in race



Making last minute runway change to enter into runway 07R for take off after being informed by the PANC airport tower that runway 07R is closed temporarily due to some debris left on the runway by previous planes



Airborne now after take off on climb to FL300 making left turn toward west with ground view of Fish Creek river and Fish Creek Estuary below the plane nose



Leaving background view of PANC area to start the route ANC J111 MCG J111 OME while continuing its climb to FL300



CONTINUED BELOW.....