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Burke Mees was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, but spent most of his career flying commercially in Alaska. In 1994 he took a summer job over the phone flying seaplanes in Juneau and never managed to leave. He went on to fly in the Aleutian Islands and later moved to Anchorage, where now resides.
His first experience flying tailwheel airplanes was as a young flight instructor when he got a checkout in a 1946 Aeronca Champ for the express purpose of teaching a 69-year-old woman to fly it. When he moved to Anchorage, he started flying skis both privately and for hire, which included flying reporters along the Iditarod trail, providing instruction for ski checkouts and flying on the local mountain glaciers.
"For me, flying has always been a matter of honest work, but it is also something that I enjoy. I look at it as an art that can continually be refined, and flight instructing has always been a way to do that. There’s no better way to explore a topic in aviation than to organize your thoughts and teach it to someone else. Currently my day job is flying as a 737 Captain in Alaska, but I still keep my CFI current and do some instructing on the side."