038 Has Launched!

Tonight our newest Kodiak is sleeping in Santa Maria in the Azores on its way to Papua New Guinea.  Last night it was in St. Johns, Newfoundland.  These images are from our SPOT tracking site.  If you want to join the spectating fun, go to the JAARS tracking site.  You can watch up-to-date position information for 038 as it makes its way around the globe.

The week before, Mark Wuerffel and I had dropped 038 in Moundridge, Kansas, handing it over to the care of Carl Weaver, founder of Weaver Aero International.  Carl's company has already delivered four or five Kodiaks for different customers to SE Asia, Europe and South Africa.  Carl is a former MAF pilot, and intimately familiar with our type of flying.

 

The pilot is Leon Stoman, pictured here with 038.  Notice the Red-cowled Kodiak in the background -- MAF's next delivery to SE Asia.