Aviation Fleet Renewal
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Your gift will help provide crucial turbine-engine aircraft, enabling JAARS-supported aviation programs to better serve hundreds of communities.
As the Bible translation movement progresses, more projects are taking place in the most remote areas of the world—making reliable air transportation more critical than ever.
Unfortunately, it’s also becoming more expensive and complex than ever.
During the last several years, aviation-grade gasoline (avgas)—which powers more than half the JAARS fleet—has skyrocketed in price and disappeared from many areas of the world. As a result, several JAARS-supported aviation programs are scrambling to stay afloat by stockpiling avgas and praying for another shipment, importing fuel from the United States, and, sadly, suspending flights when fuel runs low.
Therefore, they must transition to turbine-engine aircraft, which run on readily available jet fuel. The switch requires 10 fixed-wing aircraft and one helicopter; for 2010, the most urgent needs are a Soloy Cessna 207 for Cameroon and a Pilatus PC-6 for Indonesia.
By partnering with JAARS, you can help provide these aircraft—equipping aviation programs to better support Bible translation, education, and health and economic initiatives in hundreds of the world’s most remote communities.
