Alaska Aviation Festival.

• Author: Anderson, Tasha
• Position: ENTERTAINMENT

With more than eighty-seven thousand takeoffs and landings per year, Lake Hood is the busiest seaplane base in the world according to the Alaska Aviation Museum located there at 4721 Aircraft Drive, from which it's possible to watch takeoff and landings from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, just a half-mile away.

On July 12 from Noon to 3 p.m. the Alaska Aviation Museum, with the mission to "Preserve, display, educate, and honor the history of aviation in Alaska," will have its annual fundraiser. It was previously the Salmon bake, but starting this year is the Alaska Aviation Festival.

"The Carhartt Brothers Band will be entertaining the crowd with a variety of music along with fly-bys of various aircraft," says Shari Hart, executive director of the Alaska Aviation Museum. Along with live...