Historic plane recovered

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2011/12 Alaska winter

From low sunlight, plunging temperatures and massive snow fall, Alaska's winter are an extreme mix of beauty and danger. Post a photo of you how you live through it.

RSVP: January - 2012

Location: Sheraton Anchorage, 01/14/12 The Chenega Commercial Holdings, LLC team poses for a group photo at the 2011 Stars of the Industry event at the Sheraton Anchorage.  The Alaska Hotel & Lodging Association hosts this annual event to recognize and celebrate excellence in the hospitality industry.

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in January, 2012.

Cordova snowstorm

Location: Cordova, AlaskaThis was even before the final part of the storm!

Cordova residents are tunneling out after several snow storms moved through Prince William Sound.

January Valdez snowstorm

Heavy snow pounded Valdez and Cordova on January 6, 2012, after the town received 19.2 inches Thursday from the Prince William Sound blizzard, making for a season total of more than 20 feet. Meanwhile, Nome is having its worst cold spell since 1989.

Frosty Alaskans

Alaska is in deep freeze and it's not only the trees that are covered in frost. Send us the photos of you braving the cold.

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Armless licensed pilot Jessica Cox teaches desire, persistence and fearlessness Friday morning November 5, 2010 at Begich Middle School.

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Images from one of Alaska's most popular industries and forms of recreation: aviation.

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From bush planes to C-17s and everything in between, Alaska has its own style and stamp on the aviation industry, Post your photos.

Arctic Thunder Air Show

The Elmendorf Air Force Base Arctic Thunder 2010 Air Show on Friday July 30, 2010. The air show gate open at 9 A. M. on Saturday and Sunday with the show starting a 10 A. M. both days.

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C-17 Crash

A C-17 cargo plane crashed and burned on Elmendorf Air Force Base Wednesday evening July 28, 2010 according to the Alaska National Guard.

A C-17 cargo plane crashed and burned on Elmendorf Air Force Base Wednesday evening July 28, 2010.

Plane Crash

An Anchorage firefighter takes a survivor of a plane crash at 7th Avenue and Ingra Street to a waiting ambulance on Tuesday, June 1, 2010.

Anchorage Police and Firefighters responded to a plane crash at 7th Avenue and Ingra Street on Tuesday, June 1, 2010.

Flight 261 memorial

On Jan. 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 plunged into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ventura County. Of the 88 people killed on the flight, five were from Alaska, including Morris Thompson, the former commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Relatives and friends gathered at a memorial to the crash at Port Hueneme Beach in Port Hueneme, Ca. over the weekend for the 10-year anniversary.

Historic plane recovered

Kevin McGregor, a Delta Airlines pilot, led a recovery team for this 1946 Taylorcraft Airplane that he and Marc Millican plan on restoring. Diver Steve Lloyd led the diving part of the operation to raise the plane from it's ten year resting place at the bottom of a lake. The plane is being stripped on the shores of Lake Hood on Saturday July 18, 2009.

Pilot Mike Legler crashed his 1946 Taylorcraft airplane in an unnamed lake east of Seward nearly 16 years ago - and lived. The plane was recovered in July 2009.