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floatplane
[ floht-pleyn ]
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Origin of floatplane1
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I arrived in Anchorage early in the morning on the Fourth of July, a day before my group and I would be shuttled up to Talkeetna by van and then deposited in the backcountry by floatplane.
It begins with a floatplane that departs from the hamlet of Port Alsworth and drops you deep inside Katmai, landing wherever the pilot can safely touch down.
The flight to Metlakatla, where she’d be meeting patients in person, was her first floatplane ride and her first trip off the road system.
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