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Mission Aviation Fellowship

Learning backcountry flying from the pros

By Tom Snow · September 12, 2019 ·

The Mission Aviation Experience will be offered again this year, from Oct. 29-Nov. 1.

Mission Aviation Fellowship responds to Mozambique cyclone disaster

By General Aviation News Staff · March 20, 2019 ·

“The magnitude of this disaster is hard to comprehend,” MAF pilot Rick Emenaker reports.

Mission Aviation Fellowship installs new president

By General Aviation News Staff · September 20, 2018 ·

David Holsten, a veteran missionary pilot-mechanic, has taken the helm at Mission Aviation Fellowship.

Well done, faithful servants

By General Aviation News Staff · October 17, 2017 ·

By REBECCA HOPKINS “When I was little, I wondered how an airplane could fly if it couldn’t breathe,” said Yunike Hermanus. Hermanus was talking about the Cessna 185 with the affectionate name of “Charlie Brown” that has served indigenous Kalimantan, Indonesia, communities for almost 50 years and 23,000 hours of flight time. It is one of […]

Mission Aviation Fellowship to the rescue after Hurricane Maria

By General Aviation News Staff · September 24, 2017 ·

Hurricane Maria ripped apart homes and caused destruction across Dominica, Barbuda, and other Caribbean islands already reeling from the effects of Hurricane Irma. As families in the Caribbean struggle to recover, Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has staff on the ground and in the air providing assistance. “MAF is working with Samaritan’s Purse to survey the needs […]

Wanted: Pilots and mechanics for overseas missionary assignments

By General Aviation News Staff · August 14, 2017 ·

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has put out the help wanted sign: The organization, which provides medical flights from remote areas around the world, as well as delivering food and water and responding to disasters, is looking for pilots and mechanics. MAF officials tell the story of a young boy in Indonesia who benefit from MAF’s […]

Mission Aviation Fellowship honors donors

By General Aviation News Staff · November 26, 2015 ·

In a recently-held ceremony, Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) honored Alaska Air Group and three families whose financial gifts allowed the organization to buy airplanes that will be used in Mozambique and Central Asia. The Kennedy Family and Alaska Air Group: Bruce Kennedy, former chairman of Alaska Airlines and an MAF board member, died in a plane crash in 2007. […]

KODIAK: The ultimate backcountry machine

By General Aviation News Staff · July 19, 2015 ·

By CHRIS BURGESS Rain battered the windshield of the KODIAK as it landed in the Indonesian city of Sentani. Medical personnel rushed the passenger — a 6-year old boy named Mika — into a waiting ambulance, which sped off to the local hospital. Earlier that day, Mika had been climbing a tree in his village of […]

Mission Aviation Fellowship reaching isolated areas hit by Nepal earthquake

By General Aviation News Staff · May 7, 2015 ·

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) has begun providing helicopter transportation to remote areas of Nepal hard-hit by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred on April 25. MAF is also assisting authorities and relief agencies at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu with ramp management and planning, cargo handling, warehousing logistics and coordination. “We […]

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