It Finally Arrived!
Chief Helicopter Pilot Brian Pruett (r) and Maintenance Instructor Larry Dye (l) arrive in McNeal with the new R66 helicopter
Praise the Lord with us. After ordering the helicopter #3 for Papua New Guinea two years ago, it finally arrived on Wednesday, September 24, at our hangar in McNeal, Arizona. Yes, it’s pure white because one of the many things we will do is paint it with our red and white color scheme.
Welcoming the new R66 in front of our hangar in McNeal
Pray for our team in the weeks ahead as they prepare this R66 for overseas work in PNG. Beside the paint job, radios, satellite tracking, cargo nets, floats and much more will added before it is ready to be taken apart and packed into a container for a trans-Pacific crossing.
This helicopter has taken longer to arrive than any of the others because supply chain issues continued even after the R66 fuselage was finished. The issue – a shortage of Rolls Royce engines.
We thank the Lord for answering your many prayers, and we ask you to continue to pray that soon we will see this third R66 serving the church planting teams in the country of Papua New Guinea.
Also, continue to pray that God would challenge pilots and maintenance specialists to serve him with Ethnos360 Aviation around the world.