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For many years, Ken Jopi ran his own little air taxi service up in Fairbanks, Alaska.

He called it Ken Air.

Most of the villages, the mining camps, are totally remote.

The only way to get there is by air.

So, you know, everything that can be transported gets flown in.

Ken is a bush pilot.

He used to skim over the Alaskan wilderness in his Cessna sky wagon,

which is those little single propeller airplanes with just six seats.

The colors that I liked were blue and yellow.

The blue and yellow goes good together, so I had a blue and yellow stripe on it,

my name up on the tail, big cargo doors in the back,

and oversized tires so you can land on rough surfaces.

Pretty much anything you can imagine,

Ken has probably tried to jam it in the back of

that Cessna at some point.

We're talking drums full of gasoline, a partially disassembled ATV, a moose from a hunting

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