Sea Hawk Air

Sea Hawk Air is a family owned floatplane company in Kodiak, Alaska, founded in 1987 and locally owned and operated. It flies year round across Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula in a de Havilland DHC 2 Beaver, which seats up to six passengers and carries plenty of gear, and it says its pilot was raised on Kodiak and has thousands of hours of bush flying.

Its bear viewing tours are built around the Kodiak brown bear, one of the largest bears in the world, which lives only on the Kodiak archipelago. The tours combine a scenic flight with guided viewing on the ground, where bears fish for salmon and roam the island, and include lunch.

The company also flies charters for commercial and sport fishing and to remote lodges and public use cabins. It helps plan sightseeing, river floating, fishing, sea kayaking and backpacking trips into the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge and the wider island, much of which has no road access.

For visitors, the company runs a courtesy van between the airport and town and can recommend lodging and local attractions. Kodiak sits in the Gulf of Alaska, and a Beaver flight over its fjords, mountains and salmon rivers is one of the most direct ways to see the island's wild interior.