Ketchikan Flightseeing Tours

Ryan McCue is a pilot that has built up a suc­cess­ful, safe and friend­ly fam­i­ly busi­ness focused on get­ting peo­ple out to remote Alas­ka – by sea­plane or helicopter.

Island Wings Air Ser­vice takes pas­sen­gers flight­see­ing, bear view­ing, on guid­ed hikes, self-guid­ed hikes, to for­est ser­vice cab­ins, fly-out fish­ing trips and more.

The three-hour trip starts with a short flight over the Ton­gass Nation­al For­est to Trai­tors Cove. Access is lim­it­ed to a few vis­i­tors each year, so this is tru­ly a spe­cial oppor­tu­ni­ty. A trained guide will escort you through the for­est to a view­ing plat­form, where you can take in bears feed­ing on salmon as eagles dive in and out for scraps.

Hop in and be sure your cam­era has ful­ly charged bat­ter­ies. Jeff’s DeHav­i­land Beaver – an award win­ning Alaskan float plane – is also a thrill for those want­i­ng a quin­tes­sen­tial Alaskan adven­ture. With all those hours in the air, Jeff can tell you a thing or two about what you’ll see upon land­ing too. He was born and raised in Ketchikan, and speaks with author­i­ty on those things he’s been doing all his life: fly­ing, fish­ing, and hunting.

The Misty Fjords fleet is extreme­ly well-main­tained and boasts com­fort­able seats and panoram­ic view win­dows. Depend­ing on the num­ber of peo­ple in your flight­see­ing group, you’ll fly in the De Hav­il­land Otter (seats 10, the ​“cut­ting edge” in sea­planes), the De Hav­il­land Beaver (seats 6, com­fort­able and reli­able ​“work­horse”), or a Cess­na 135 (seats 2 – 3, the ​“sports car” of seaplanes).