INDONESIA KODIAK CAMPAIGN
$3.5 Million Fleet Optimization Effort in Papua & Kalimantan Imagine living in a remote village in the middle of the oldest rain forest in the world. No roads. Difficult terrain to cross even on foot due to the vast number of rivers that divide the land. Your only access to resources and help from the outside world is by a high-frequency radio and the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) pilot who lands in a river near your village. He brings food, medicines, and supplies. In Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, this is the reality for more than a hundred Kalimantan villages.
Papua
Kalimantan In the mid-1990s, MAF opened a floatplane base in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, to serve Wycliffe Bible translators and a medical clinic operated by two German nurses. Today, MAF continues to minister to these groups while also enabling Indonesian missionaries to plant sustainable churches in interior villages. Because of frequent MAF flights to remote Central Kalimantan villages, more Indonesian church leaders are expressing interest in launching evangelism efforts
in areas where past attempts to plant churches failed. The interior villages are extremely isolated, and Christian families face persecution often.
Kalimantan’s Aging Fleet In order to continue to show God’s
love to the most remote families in Kalimantan, MAF needs to upgrade its aging fleet. MAF’s two Cessna 185
floatplanes in Palangkaraya, Kalimantan, are 51 and 44 years old and use aviation gasoline (avgas), which is very scarce and expensive in the region ($13 per gallon). Quest Aircraft Company’s KODIAK is the ideal bush airplane to serve remote people groups in Kalimantan. It runs on less expensive and abundant jet fuel and has more than twice the cargo capacity of the C185 aircraft.
MAF’s First Amphibious KODIAK Today, MAF is blessed with the opportunity to purchase a KODIAK on floats at the reduced price of $2 million. With your prayers and support, more lives will be changed now and for eternity in Indonesia. The KODIAK earmarked for Kalimantan will be the first of its kind, equipped with newly developed Aerocet floats. These highly efficient floats will allow the aircraft to reach more than a hundred villages that can be accessed only by river. MAF pilots are excited about the new floats. Other models are made of aluminum, which is susceptible to corrosion. The Aerocet floats are made of carbon composite, which can withstand a beating without the risk of corrosion. They are also significantly lighter than aluminum floats, an important consideration in air travel.
Chubby Checker’s single The Twist topped the billboard charts . . . The first of the James Bond movies Dr. No was an instant success . . . and MAF’s Cessna 185 left the factory in Wichita, Kansas, to serve in Indonesia! This C185, nicknamed Charlie Brown, has accumulated almost 24,000 flight hours in Indonesia and is ready to retire. The Kalimantan team shared birthday cake and a few laughs when Charlie Brown turned 50 years old last year. The fact that this airplane is still flying is a testament to MAF’s careful maintenance of its fleet.
In Papua, Indonesia, a range of mountains with elevations topping 16,000 feet above sea level bisects the province and, along with vast areas of jungle, creates mammoth transportation barriers.
Papua From five bases of operations in Papua, Indonesia, MAF pilots soar over rain forests, mountains, and swamps to “Since the Gospel reach deep into the region, message first penetrated this penetrating some of the area, those seeking world’s most remote areas to to serve the most share the Gospel and improve remote regions of the quality of life for isolated Papua have been villagers. reliant upon mission People groups in the interior aircraft to transport of Papua depend upon their families, aircraft for medicines, supplies, and national food, educational materials, workers.” building supplies, and other basic needs. Most other – David Holsten, MAF flight services in Papua are Papua Assistant Program Manager operated by for-profit entities
that prioritize service to those who can pay the most. The need for affordable flights in Papua is so great that MAF pilots can accommodate only less than half of the requests they receive.
Air Travel In Papua Is Here To Stay The MAF Papua program has been operational since 1952. Sixty years later, air travel remains the most practical option. MAF continues to enable many mission projects in Papua, working alongside missionaries from Christian and Missionary Alliance, Unevangelised Fields Mission (UFM Worldwide), Wycliffe, New Tribes Mission, World Team, Pioneers, and other agencies.
KODIAKs Are The Best Tool For The Job Since the first MAF KODIAK arrived in Papua a few years ago to join the fleet of C206s, it has proven to be the ideal aircraft for the province. Among the 217 airstrips that MAF serves in Papua, the typical airstrip is located at an elevation of 5,000 feet and surrounded by rugged terrain. It is built on the sloping
“This final KODIAK will be replacing two C206s. We are picking up the work of the two smaller planes with a single aircraft.” – David Holsten, MAF Papua Assistant Program Manager
side of a mountain, has a dirt and grass surface, and is relatively short for an airstrip. Of these, 103 of them are accessible only by small aircraft capable of performing short takeoffs and landings (STOLs). This type of airstrip also happens to be the KODIAK’s “sweet spot.” The KODIAK carries nearly twice the payload of the C206 with greater safety and comfort.
The MAF Papua program presently flies four KODIAKs and hopes to obtain one more at the greatly reduced price of $1.5 million to complete the upgrade of its fleet.
2012 Flight Numbers =100 FLIGHTS =1000 PASSENGERS
8,430 FLIGHTS 35,138PASSENGERS PAPUA
120 MAF Staff // 14 Aircraft
6,586 FLIGHTS 20,219PASSENGERS KALIMANTAN
39 MAF Staff // 7 Aircraft
MAF Aircraft Feature Comparisons
KODIAK 100
CESSNA 185 FLOATPLANE
CESSNA T206
Seating capacity including pilot
10
6
6
$0.22
$0.46
$0.41
1,652 lb.
416 lb.
671 lb.
880 ft.
2,000 ft.
950 ft.
165 nm/hr.
106 nm/hr.
120 nm/hr.
315 gal.
74 gal.
88 gal.
$4
$12
$12
$1.94
$2.32
$2.07
Cost per seat mile Useful load, after pilot and fuel for 500 nautical miles (nm) Take-off distance at sea level at 300C Average cruise speed at 10,000 ft Fuel capacity (useable) Fuel cost per gallon (varies by location) Operating cost per nautical mile
THE COST If we take delivery now, we can purchase the two fully loaded KODIAKs at the greatly reduced price of $1.5 million for the Papua KODIAK and $2 million for the Kalimantan KODIAK on floats.
We seek gifts of $3.5 million from caring partners: individuals, churches, and foundations.
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