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Early American aviator who founded the first airline in the state of Alaska. Over the course of his career as a pilot, he flew to the Arctic Circle and the Bering Strait.He founded Wien Air Alaska in 1927.He and Amelia Earhart were both famous aviators.
BEFORE FAMEHe worked in the early 1920s as a barnstormer and stunt pilot for Clarence W. Hinck's Federated Fliers Flying Circus.
PERSONAL LIFEHis brothers, Sig and Ralph, were also pilots. He married Ada Bering Arthurs in 1929; together, they had three children.
FUN FACTSPilot Noel Wien were born on Thursday, birthstone is Pearl, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of , it is 157 days until Noel Wien next birthday.
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