Dolena Fox says speaking Yugtun and flying locals around the Y-K Delta has been her dream since middle school. 'I want more people to know that doing what they want to do is actually very achievable,” she says.
Pilot Dolena Fox is flying a silver and blue-striped Cessna 207 to Tuntutuliak. At 26 years old, Fox is at least a decade younger than her plane.
And Fox is the first female Yup’ik pilot to work for Grant. There’s been at least one other female Yup’ik commercial pilot before her: Lindsey Jean Laraux flew commercially in the Y-K Delta from 2007-2010. Less than two years later, she had her private pilot’s license, her instructor’s certification, and her commercial pilot’s license.
The dad who has dropped them off, Andrew Frank, said that it’s incredible to have a pilot in the Y-K Delta who can communicate in Yugtun with them. “For me personally, it was really hard to even just leave Bethel. To go to flight training and to go to school and to do something that I never saw as a successful goal. But I want more people to know that doing what they want to do is actually very achievable,” said Fox.
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