...one of forty of its kind. That October, it experienced an engine failure and he crash-landed near Shirley Lake at Rainey Pass. The airplane was recovered in 1967. Today Hammond is best remembered as the father of the Alaska Permanent Fund and...

...We put one of these at Lake Hood and pilots there are using it to practice flying places like Merrill (Field) and Rainey Pass two or three times before they get in their planes and go there," said Dennis Ward, executive director of the Medallion...