Pacific Northern Airlines Flight Attendant Hat Badge 1st Issue

Anchorage, AK 1932-1967

This airline was originally founded in 1932 as Woodley Airways, operating local routes in southwestern Alaska. The name Pacific Northern Airlines was adopted in 1945. With the award of a trunk route between Anchorage and Seattle, PNA started this service in October 1947 in competition with Northwest Airlines. PNA was taken over by Western Airlines in 1967, being fully integrated by October. Western Airlines merged with Delta Airlines on April 1, 1987.