Aviation gasoline, or "avgas," fuels the current JAARS fleet comprising aging, piston-engine aircraft. But avgas is obsolete in today’s jet-engine world. Avgas is currently expensive and difficult to obtain in the Pacific and West Africa. Oil companies plan to cease supplying it in the near future. Without avgas to fuel the existing planes, there will be no way to fly translators to Bibleless people.
But there is a solution ...
Quest Aircraft Company, LLC has designed the KODIAK, a plane that operates using readily available jet fuel. There’s more about the KODIAK that makes it perfect for transporting Bible translators. In fact, some call it the “ideal missionary aircraft.” Read on to find out why.
Read "If we had a KODIAK" stories from missionaries and missionary pilots ...
*JAARS is the Wycliffe affiliate organization giving transportation and technology support to Bible translators in the field.
