Sunday Air Taxi

Sunday Air Taxi is a locally owned, family run air taxi based in Dillingham, Alaska, a town at the head of Nushagak Bay in the Bristol Bay region of Western Alaska. It flies a Cessna 185 Skywagon, a tough single engine taildragger built for bush strips, gravel bars and floats.

The company flies air charters that give visitors access to the Alaska wilderness, each with an experienced pilot and a local guide. It says its operator has spent about 15 years living, flying, hunting, fishing and trapping in Western Alaska.

Bear viewing is its main highlight, and the region's rivers and lakes, part of the world's largest sockeye salmon run, draw brown bears every summer. The company also shows whitewater rafting and waterfall scenery among the trips it supports, and the nearby Wood Tikchik State Park, the largest state park in the United States, is known for its chain of lakes and remote rivers.

The company also flies residents of surrounding villages home, an important service in a region with no road connection to the rest of Alaska. For visitors, it offers trips that combine local knowledge with access to some of the wildest country in the state.