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GroundCrew Issue - August 2007 - Page One

Rapid Response Teams Travel to Tanzania and Zambia to Assist Aviation Ministries

Airplanes typically arrive at MMS in one of three ways: they fly in (which means they usually fly out quicker); they are driven in strapped down to a fifth-wheel trailer pulled by a pickup truck; or they are shipped in from overseas inside a twenty to forty-foot metal container.

However, if an airplane is unable to be flown, driven, or shipped to our hangar facility in Coshocton, Ohio, MMS has the ability to send a team of mechanics to the airplane. We call this going on “rapid response.”

Two such teams recently responded to critical maintenance needs for ministries operating in Tanzania and Congo.

Chase Ketcham assists with a major inspection of MAF’s Cessna 208.

Tanzania
Chase and Cindy Ketcham recently spent a month in Tanzania. Chase assisted Marine Reach and Mission Aviation Fellowship with maintenance on several different aircraft while Cindy helped with information technology.

(Upper left) Tim Obarow and Scott Grote install a new gear box for the Cessna 206’s main landing gear. (Upper right) Scott repairs the tail cone of the Cessna 206. (Lower right) Tim and the missionary pilot, Jacques Akasa, prepare the completed airplane for an early morning test flight.

Zambia
Tim Obarow and Scott Grote spent three weeks in Zambia performing major repairs on a Cessna 206 operated in Congo by Wings of Caring.

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