She Returns

For 6 months, one of our DC-3's was broken down on the island of Nassau in the Bahamas. In mid January our crew was returning from a cargo flight to Haiti when they experienced engine problems. We praise God they landed safely in Nassau. Because of delays at the overhaul shop and no definite date of when we would receive the engine, we were forced to purchase another overhauled engine. Hurricane season officially began June 1st and we did not want to have the plane exposed on the island as it was. This past Monday we flew with the new engine and all our tools to Nassau in one of our other DC-3's. Four of us worked two full days installing the new engine. We flew home Wednesday and returned to Nassau on Friday to complete a couple repairs before flying her home. The flight went well and since we were in two planes I was able to get some good photos of the plane in flight. We now have all three DC-3's in the hangar again.

God Provides Parts

On Monday June 8th I traveled to Panama City, Florida with 3 other guys from MFI to pick up some parts that MFI purchased at an auction. The State of Florida had shut down a mosquito spraying operation that used a DC-3, the same plane that we use. We flew over in the Cessna 206 which took about 3 hours. We were told that everything should fit in a 26 foot moving truck but when we arrived we knew it wouldn't be enough. A list of parts was presented from the auctioneer but fortunately for us there ended up being more, much more than was on the list. So much more that we ended up with two 26 foot moving trucks and a trailer. For just over $6000 we received tens of thousands of dollars in parts. God is good. Pictured above are just a few of the parts being off loaded at the hangar.