After many years of planning, on March 19 JAARS finally received its first 8-seat Cessna 207, coverted by the Soloy Corporation with a small 420 H.P. turbo-prop engine. The aviation program managers in Cameroon had asked for this special airplane because of the exhorbitant taxes there on aircraft the size of the Kodiak and larger.
The engine, a Rolls Royce Allison turbine, burns jet fuel which is readily available in Cameroon, and much cheaper then aviation gasoline ("AVGAS") which is actually hard to find at any price. We have used aircraft with this engine before, including the Jet Ranger helicopters in Papua New Guinea. The conversion involved extensive modification of the aircraft forward of the firewall. We hope to see this aircraft in Cameroon by July, serving in that country as well as another five surrounding countries. I was involved with this project for a long time, and we thought that we would be helping with its implementation, but we have been asked to step into another project on the other side of the African continent....
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Nice plane. I hope someday I can ride on a plane :)
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