Mission Aviation Fellowship

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De Havilland Canada DHC-6 of the MAF
The most used "workhorse" of the MAF: Cessna 206 , sufficient for five passengers or 650 kg payload

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) ( German  about the Missionary Aviation Company ) is a global, donation-funded, independent Christian missionary work with the aim in difficult countries and regions of the world, the lack of road network essential aeronautical infrastructure for companies operating there Missions - and aid agencies to To make available.

History and basics

In 1943, some US pilots began to realize their dream of an organized humanitarian aviation mission. Soon colleagues from other countries joined them. On May 20, 1945, they founded the Christian Airmen's Missionary Fellowship (CAMF) (German: "Missionary Society of Christian Airmen"), which was later renamed MAF. The first flight took place in Mexico in 1946. MAF-Link Support was founded in Wienhausen in 1991 and renamed MAF Germany eV in 1992. The head office has been in Siegen since 2013. The MAF Switzerland office is located in Aarau.

MAF has around 1250 employees from various denominations worldwide and works for over 2000 church and humanitarian organizations. Ten of the around 330 pilots are Germans.

MAF works on the basis of a biblically founded Christian worldview and the Christian missionary command , formulated in a canon of beliefs that every employee of the work personally recognizes. In addition, there is deliberately no connection to a specific denomination or belief; At MAF, believing Christians of all stripes work with us.

structure

In September 2006 several MAF partner organizations merged to form MAF-International based in Ashford / England. This includes:

  • MAF Australia
  • MAF Denmark
  • MAF Finland
  • MAF France
  • MAF Germany
  • MAF Italy
  • MAF Netherlands
  • MAF New Zealand
  • MAF Norway
  • MAF South Africa
  • MAF Sweden
  • MAF Switzerland
  • MAF UK

Each MAF country is assigned to one of these plants. MAF operates in over 25 countries, including Papua New Guinea , East Timor , Madagascar , Mongolia , Chad , Liberia and Tanzania .

activities

aviation

MAF's activities include material and personnel transport as well as rescue missions or reconnaissance flights for basic medical care for the population. The aircraft fleet is serviced by MAF's own technicians, MAF also organizes and monitors flight operations itself and supports the local population of their flight destinations in the creation and maintenance of runways .

In 2015 MAF flew to around 1500 destinations worldwide, mainly small villages with easy landing strips. This means that MAF lands on more airports and runways than any other airline. In over 43,000 flight hours, 17,800 passengers and around 6,000 tons of cargo were transported over more than 9 million kilometers . MAF operates 135 aircraft in over 37 countries.

Other

In addition to aviation, MAF is also involved in the development of information technology by setting up radio systems and computer communication for other missions in remote areas as well as in the general education of residents.

fleet

The aircraft park consists of:

Incidents

  • On February 22, 2005, another Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF PNG) (P2-MFQ) de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter was flown into a mountain. In this renewed CFIT (Controlled flight into terrain) during the approach to the Wobegon airfield, the two 2 pilots were killed.

financing

Two thirds of the worldwide flight operations are financed by donors acquired from the supporting countries. The majority are donations from private individuals. a smaller part are institutional contributions.

Another third is the direct income on site. Aid agencies, church communities and individuals all contribute to the flight costs according to their possibilities.

Web links

Commons : Mission Aviation Fellowship  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Ahler: MAF. Wings of hope. Edition 2/2016. MAF Deutschland eV, Siegen 2016, pp. 6-7.
  2. ↑ maf-swiss.org August 27, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Stories Static. In: MAF Australia. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Missionsflugdienst MAF increasingly in demand , idea.de, report from January 30, 2015.
  5. ↑ Contact - MAF International. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Peter Schmidt: We fly: Help, hope, healing. (PDF) In: AOPA -Germany LETTER. AOPA-Germany, February 2018, accessed on March 1, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Frank Ahler: MAF. Wings of hope. Edition 2/2016. MAF Deutschland eV, Siegen 2016, pp. 8, 9 and 16.
  8. ↑ MAF Ambassador: Every flight hour replaces a three-day walk ( memento from February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), portal-oncken.de, notification from July 19, 2007.
  9. ↑ Frank Ahler: MAF. Wings of hope. Edition 2/2016. MAF Germany eV, Siegen 2016, p. 8.
  10. ^ Accident report DHC-6 P2-MFS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 20, 2019.
  11. ^ Accident report DHC-6 P2-MFQ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 20, 2019.
  12. ↑ a b About us. MAF Germany, accessed March 1, 2018 .