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Once one of the largest and busiest airports in the United States, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC)<\/a><\/span> was once in the best strategic position of any global airport. In an era when overflying the Soviet Union was not permitted and aircraft ranges were limited, flying from the United States or Europe to East Asia almost always required a stopover in Anchorage for refueling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anchorage Airport once saw thousands of flights every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,1682,13240,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-anchorage-international-airport","category-commercial-aviation","category-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t