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Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP3 "The Flight Before Christmas"A major snowstorm disrupts Christmas travel in Anchorage; bush pilots aid an Arctic village after a fire; ice jeopardizes an airborne science mission; Customs agents combat a surge in illegal holiday food imports.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP4 "Shivering Timbers"A Coast Guard chopper pilot battles winds in a mission that will decide her flying career; a mountain construction project gets an express aerial delivery of materials in Alaska-style; two bald eagles hitch a first-class ride.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP5 "Flight to Glory"A trainee chopper pilot tackles a midair engine shutdown; Bush pilots face a high-altitude test on an aerial grocery run; the US Army in Alaska launch their biggest helicopter deployment ever, and an Arctic-sports phenom flies high to win gold.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP6 "Avalanche Warning"Scientists fly to save Anchorage from avalanche destruction; border agents stop a potential insect invasion at Anchorage International; a bush pilot flies explosive cargo for a village festival, and the Coast Guard races to repair.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP7 "The Big Chill"Shiver as a DC-6 crew delivers medicine in fuel-freezing weather, then cheer on a rookie Coast Guard rescue swimmer during a crucial test; battle a tourist-season-ending engine fault and hunker down as a blizzard closes in on two vital airports.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP8 "Sunspot"Inspect a new bush plane built from 70-year-old plans and take off on a US Army protection mission; batten down the hatches as hurricane-force winds pummel Anchorage, then observe as NASA scientists blast off from Alaska's answer to Cape Canaveral.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP9 "Runway Meltdown"A pilot races to fly food to a homesteader; entrepreneurs reviving a 1940s airframe land on ice to prove it can be the future of bush flying; trainee plane mechanics face a crucial test and an airport night guardian calls time.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP10 "Flight of the Goose"The Coast Guard flies a twelve-ton fuel truck to keep a remote base operational; an athlete flies to a dangerous airport for a glacier race; Fairbanks crews fight an avian invasion and after a decade in a museum, a Grumman Goose takes to the skies.
