 Between 1986 and 2000, the primary year-round residents were a family of five who worked together to maintain the area in the winter for mining in the summer.In July 1933, pioneering aviator Wiley Post undertook the first solo flight around the world.On July 20, en route to Fairbanks from a stop in Khabarovsk, Siberia, Post nosed over his high-wing, single-engine Lockheed Vega, the "Winnie Mae", in Flat.