{"id":19683,"date":"2021-10-11T18:38:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=19683"},"modified":"2021-10-11T18:38:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T18:38:34","slug":"mission-aviation-fellowship-dedicates-new-aircraft-for-service-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/mission-aviation-fellowship-dedicates-new-aircraft-for-service-in-africa\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Mission Aviation Fellowship Dedicates New Aircraft for Service in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has dedicated a new\nairplane that will serve isolated people in the African country of Angola. The\nairplane, a Cessna 208EX Grand Caravan, is currently being prepared for\nservice, before it will be flown across the Atlantic sometime in early in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) Cessna Caravan dedication ceremony held at Brantford Airport on October 8, 2021<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis new airplane will be replacing the oldest currently\noperating Caravan in MAF\u2019s global fleet,\u201d says Lowell Deering, MAF Canada\u2019s VP\nof Operations. \u201cIt\u2019s nicknamed \u2018Wings of Hope (WOH)\u2019 because of its\nregistration. WOH is the 18th Caravan built of more than 2600 manufactured\nto-date and has served in Africa since 1989 including Angola for over 30\nyears.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAF Canada President & CEO Brad Bell says, “WOH\nprovided faithful service in Angola for over 30 years and is leaving a legacy\nof Hope. Imagine the legacy that this new aircraft is going to have. Its work\nwill continue to make an impact for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchased new, the Cessna Grand Caravan retails for roughly\n$3.6 million with all the equipment MAF needs to operate in remote areas. \u201cThis\nparticular airplane really was a God-send,\u201d says Bell. \u201cIt was built for\nanother operator who was unable to take possession of it, so we were able to\nnegotiate roughly $800,000 off the purchase price, which is unheard of for a\nplane with only 12 hours of flight time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Cessna Caravan has been central to the work we\u2019ve been\nable to do for 30 years in Angola,\u201d says Bell. \u201cThere are no roads in or out of\nmany of the communities we work in, and the ones that do exist are often\nunusable during the rainy season. We\u2019re able to provide our ministry partners\nin Angola with a safe and timely alternative to days of overland travel, and\nsometimes, the only access that exists at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new aircraft can carry up to 12 passengers, or a useful\nload of 1400 kgs. The plane will be used for medical evacuations, delivering\ndoctors, healthcare workers, and national pastors, as well as carrying vaccines\nand medical equipment to remote clinics when time is critical. In particular,\nMAF is instrumental in elevating the status of women in community, by providing\nflights for hundreds of fistula patients each year. MAF is also key to the\nsuccess of HALO Trust, an organization dedicated to eliminating the estimated\n10 million landmines left behind by Angola\u2019s 27-year-old civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has dedicated a new airplane that will serve isolated people in the African country of Angola. The airplane, a Cessna 208EX Grand Caravan, is currently being prepared for service, before it will be flown across the Atlantic sometime in early in 2022. \u201cThis new airplane will be replacing the oldest currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19685,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19683\/revisions\/19685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}