{"id":26835,"date":"2023-09-29T00:47:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=26835"},"modified":"2023-09-29T00:50:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:50:18","slug":"new-samaritans-purse-airlift-response-center-dedicated-in-greensboro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-carolina\/new-samaritans-purse-airlift-response-center-dedicated-in-greensboro\/%20","title":{"rendered":"New Samaritan’s Purse Airlift Response Center Dedicated in Greensboro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard attended the dedication to offer words of gratitude and encouragement for the work of Samaritan\u2019s Purse. <\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, the Samaritan’s Purse Airlift Response Center at\nthe Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina was dedicated.\nThe facility was built to support the organization’s two largest cargo\naircraft\u2014a Douglas DC-8 and a newly acquired Boeing 757. The more than\n62,000-square-foot response center includes a 55,000-square-foot hangar, office\nspace, and the capacity to facilitate a wide range of aircraft maintenance\nactivities. It is staffed by 21 people, including pilots, flight engineers,\nload masters, maintenance personnel, and additional flight support staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samaritan’s Purse recently expanded its fleet of aircraft by\nadding a 757 freighter. The cargo hold is equivalent to the space of three\ntractor-trailers, and it can carry a maximum load of 67,000 pounds of\ncargo\u2014increasing the N.C.-based organization’s ability to respond to disasters\nat a moment’s notice. The 757 completed its first relief mission on Sept. 1,\nairlifting 24 tons of cargo to Maui, Hawaii, where volunteers are helping\nwildfire victims begin to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Franklin Graham<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“Disasters and crises are happening more and more\nfrequently around the world. Things aren’t getting better, they seem to be\ngetting worse, and we want to help those who are suffering when their needs are\ngreatest. As a pilot, I know the value of aviation. It allows us to respond\nquickly when disasters strike\u2014we couldn’t do it without these tools and this\nteam,” said Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse. “We\nthank God for the new Greensboro Airlift Response Center and our two cargo\nplanes that give us the ability to meet needs in Jesus’ Name.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m grateful for everyone who joined us including city officials, law enforcement, the airport authority, local church representatives, and many more. And I want to say a special thank you to Tulsi Gabbard and Greta Van Susteren for coming and sharing their experiences with Samaritan’s Purse and how this facility enables us to help hurting people around the world in Jesus\u2019 Name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A newly acquired Boeing 757 sits outside the Samaritan’s Purse Airlift Response Center at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. | Photos Courtesy of Samaritan’s Purse <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, the Samaritan’s Purse Airlift Response Center at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina was dedicated. The facility was built to support the organization’s two largest cargo aircraft\u2014a Douglas DC-8 and a newly acquired Boeing 757. The more than 62,000-square-foot response center includes a 55,000-square-foot hangar, office space, and the capacity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-north-carolina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purse-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835","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=26835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26842,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835\/revisions\/26842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}