Original Members

• Centennial
• Sasquatch
• Yukon Jack
• Puck II
• Nemesis
• Major Mapleleaf

History

James MacDonald Hudson had first intended the man known as Logan (Wolverine) or Weapon X, whom he and his wife, Heather, had nursed back to sanity after years in the Canadian wilderness, to be the leader of Alpha flight. However this task fell to Hudson himself when Logan was recruited by Professor X to become a member of the X-Men.

Department H goes live!

The project was to be a three-tiered training system: New recruits or those whose powers proved unstable, would be assigned to Gamma Flight. Those whose command of their abilities required further training formed the basis of Beta Flight. The front line, the active members whose job it would be to rout any superhuman threats to the nation, were Alpha Flight. Though the Beta and Gamma Flight units did produce some heroes who went on to serve on Alpha Flight, the government shut them down. The programs were then taken over and perverted for evil purposes, forming the nucleus of Omega Flight, Alpha's opposite number.

Beginning

Alpha Flight burst onto the pages of Marvel in 1979 with there first appearance in Uncanny X-Men #120 as the Canadian government's soon to be disbanded Super Hero Team. James MacDonald Hudson,  the team's cerebral leader, had direct oversight of Alpha Flight. Hudson,  who at the time was known as Vindicator, soon learned the government was shutting down funding of Alpha Flight.

Issue #1 of Alpha Flight opens with us learning that the Canadian super team Alpha Flight is being disbanded. Only weeks prior, Alpha Flight -- comprised of Vindicator, Snowbird, Sasquatch, the twins Aurora and Northstar, and Shaman -- along with the help of X-Men Wolverine and Nightcrawler -- defeated the mystical creature known as the Wendigo in the Canadian wilderness. The Canadian Prime Minister then delivered the bad news to Hudson. Department H, the secret arm of the Canadian Ministry of Defense, is pulling funding. Allowed to keep limited security clearance and still in command of the skin-tight battle suit he designed, Hudson went home to tell his wife Heather the bad news.

The decline of a dream

Almost as soon as Vindicator arrives home he must fly away to a mysterious happening in the Canadian wilderness. An ancient giant creature known as Tundra has been conjured back into existence and is threatening to harm Canada. Mac's wife, who fears for her husbands safety as he heads out to face this foe alone, sneaks into Mac's office and randomly sends out a call to action to the rest of Alpha Flight through a government computer. She also randomly picks 2 super heroes who are in the junior team known as Beta Flight. Those two team members are Puck and Marrina, who become key figures within Alpha Flight. Immediately through implanted transponders each member hears the call and although they are spread out across Canada they make their way to the battle with Tundra. All but Puck that is, who shows up in the end of the issue. The battle is an easy victory for Alpha Flight. They decided that with or without government funding, it is their duty to protect Canada. Mac even changes his codename from Vindicator to Guardian to punctuate the point: they are Canada's guardians.

Alpha, family and allies

Through deaths and resurrections, strange transformations and sudden reversals, they fought on, loyal to their mission of protecting their homeland.

New Beginning

When the last of Alpha Flight had been abducted by the alien Plodex, Sasquatch assembled a new oddball squad. The team consisted of the 97-year-old Centennial, Major Mapleleaf, the son of a World War II-era hero, the deadly Nemesis, a new Puck (the original Puck's daughter), and the mysterious Yukon Jack.

The legend continues

The Death of Alpha Flight

In the New Avengers arc, "The Collective", Alpha Flight were chasing after the Collective empowered Michael Pointer, who had destroyed his home town in Alaska.

When the team confronted him, he brutally attacked them, killing almost all of them. Sasquatch was the only one who survived, and he helped form Canada's newest defense squad, Omega Flight.

Other Realities

The X-men: Colossus, Iceman, Nightcrawler, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Wolverine, Angel, Dazzler and the newest X-Man, Firestar,  came up against the Ultimate vesion of Alpha Flight. Alpha Flight consisted of: Vindicator, Aurora, Snowbird, Sunfire, Shaman, Sasquatch and Jubilee who had come to bring Northstar back to Canada.