{"id":22655,"date":"2013-05-15T02:48:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T05:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22655"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:31:08","slug":"mission-aviation-completely-rebuilds-bush-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/mission-aviation-completely-rebuilds-bush-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Aviation Completely Rebuilds Bush Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blog of Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) describes how the group took a 1980 Cessna 206 and broke it down to its smallest components in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mafblog.com\/mafaviation\/bought-for-a-price\">extensive rebuild effort<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The] 1980 Cessna TU206, named HC-BMO, served 20 years in Ecuador&#8230; After accumulating almost 10,000 flight hours (about 1.4 million miles) we reassigned it to Africa. But first, we routed it through Nampa for a new engine and a major airframe overhaul&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We drilled out and replaced over 11,000 rivets to expose and check every square inch of every surface. We inspected each <!--more-->rubber grommet, control mechanism, pulley, bearing and hose. We checked hundreds of feet of electrical cables and radio wiring&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After investing nearly 2,000 man-hours (worth $130,000 not counting parts), we sent it out with a new name, N5142C, to serve the mountain folks of Lesotho&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That seems like a substantial effort for a missionary organization to take on, though a brief search shows similar aircraft selling for more than $200,000, so the rebuild was likely worth the effort.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog of Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) describes how the group took a 1980 Cessna 206 and broke it down to its smallest components in an extensive rebuild effort: [The] 1980 Cessna TU206, named HC-BMO, served 20 years in Ecuador&#8230; After accumulating almost 10,000 flight hours (about 1.4 million miles) we reassigned it to Africa. But first, we routed it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3005,96,70,145,22],"class_list":["post-22655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missionary-aviation","tag-cessna","tag-christian","tag-evangelism","tag-mission-aviation-fellowship","tag-missionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}