Fliers Davis And Merrill At Ketchikan

Russel Hyde Merrill standing in front of the Curtiss Model F. Seagull seaplane in which he and fellow pilot Roy J. Davis flew to Alaska and Anchorage. (Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, Anchorage, Alaska)

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 7.—Roy Davis and Russell Merrill have arrived here in their aeromarine plane. Engine trouble developed on the trip north from Seattle and has necessitated changing motors here. The two fliers are enroute to Seward to inaugurate a flying service to Bering Sea canneries.

Alaska Daily Empire, Juneau, AK, July 7, 1926