{"id":3345,"date":"2010-01-22T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2010-01-21T23:31:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T07:31:50","slug":"maf-kodiak-heads-to-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/maf-kodiak-heads-to-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"MAF Kodiak Heads to Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missionary Aviation Fellowship (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/links.htm\">Christian Aviation Links<\/a>)\u00a0has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiannewswire.com\/news\/4101912813.html\">dispatched one of its new Kodiak aircraft<\/a> to assist with its in-place team in Haiti. The Kodiaks are unique aircraft that specifically <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/maf-receives-built-for-purpose-plane\/\">meet the needs of the MAF<\/a> to fly into remote and rough fields with a significant cargo.\u00a0 The MAF has four of the aircraft; the three others are already flying in other\u00a0remote locations.<\/p>\n<p>The MAF has long had a presence in Haiti, and that persistence has paid off in the current relief efforts.\u00a0 The US Air Force, which currently controls the Port-au-Prince airport, has been sending relief aircraft to the MAF hangar, where the MAF has been assisting with cargo offloads and customs clearance.<\/p>\n<p>The Kodiak will join three other missionary aircraft that have already begun flying missions to distribute aid around the devastated country, as well as returning to Port-au-Prince with foreign nationals who want to evacuate through the airport.<\/p>\n<p>While evangelism is one of the goals of the MAF, right now it is aptly serving as the &#8220;hands and feet&#8221; of service that are required to assist a people in great physical need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missionary Aviation Fellowship (see Christian Aviation Links)\u00a0has dispatched one of its new Kodiak aircraft to assist with its in-place team in Haiti. The Kodiaks are unique aircraft that specifically meet the needs of the MAF to fly into remote and rough fields with a significant cargo.\u00a0 The MAF has four of the aircraft; the three others are already flying in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13,70,146,147,144,145,22,10],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missionary-aviation","tag-aircraft","tag-evangelism","tag-haiti","tag-kodiak","tag-maf","tag-mission-aviation-fellowship","tag-missionary","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","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=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}