It's been around since 1930 and is built atop an old landfill. Snowberms are known to accumulate around it in winter time, lending its prime Anchorage real estate a sort of otherness, a little city within a city, kept separate from the menagerie of strip malls, strip clubs and condo developments that have sprung up around it.
Merrill Field, one of the largest General Aviation airports in Alaska and the United States, needs a new manager. And according to the Municipality of Anchorage, which owns and operates the airport, the right candidate will be well rewarded to the tune of nearly $100,000 in annual salary, along with benefits.
Alaskan aviation nuts -- and there's an army of you out there -- take note. Here's what you need to know in order to qualify for the position of Merrill Field manager:
Merrill Field is home to the University of Alaska Anchorage school for aviation technology as well as a couple of flight schools, air taxi service operators, private businesses (like this publication) and legions of very large, menacing ravens come wintertime.
It's an "executive" position with the municipality, meaning you'll serve at the pleasure of Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan. The "supplemental questions" for the position are interesting revealing, and appear to weight the position toward applicants with years and years of middle management experience. Find out more here.