Pacific Northern Airlines

Pacific Northern Airlines
Woodley Airways
IATA ICAO Call sign
PN(1) PN(1) —
Commenced operationsApril 10, 1932 (1932-04-10)
as Woodley Airways
17 December 1945 as Pacific Northern Airlines
Ceased operationsJuly 1, 1967 (1967-07-01)
merged into Western Air Lines
Fleet sizeSee Fleet below
DestinationsSee Destinations below
HeadquartersSeattle, Washington
from 1951
Anchorage, Alaska
until 1951
United States
FounderArthur G. Woodley
Employees830
Notes
(1) IATA, ICAO codes were the same until the 1980s

Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA) was an Alaska carrier operating jets as well as larger piston engine aircraft, a category of airline certificated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the Federal agency that, at the time, tightly regulated US air transportation. The airline started in 1932 as Woodley Airways, a sole proprietorship of founder Arthur G. Woodley, who remained in control of the airline through its sale to Western Air Lines in 1967, by which time it had extended its service beyond southern Alaska to Seattle.

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