Seybert founded PenAir at age 18 in a Southwest Alaska village. It became the largest regional carrier in Alaska.
Alaska aviator Orin Seybert, who founded and shepherded Peninsula Airways into the largest regional carrier in Alaska, died Friday.the airline at the age of 18 in 1955, in Pilot Point in Southwest Alaska where he lived. He started it with his first plane, a 1946 Taylorcraft. The goal was flying village residents to hospitals, his family said.for 65 years.
Seybert was known as the “finest Grumman pilot in the world,” and he flew his personal Widgeon all around Alaska for the company, the family said.
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