Fixing Planes

Most of you know Mark is training here at MMS Aviation so that he can be an aircraft engineer for MAF on one of their 30+ programmes worldwide. When the world training it mentioned there is often the tendency to think we haven't quite made it 'there' yet, wherever there is!!

Thankfully the partnership between MAF UK and MMS Aviation means that Mark can be hands on working on mission aircraft and actually fixing planes throughout this so called 'training period'. In fact the work he is doing now will have a much larger impact on worldwide mission geographically than once he has qualified and works specifically for MAF ... as we mentioned last October in Mission Aviation! MMS is truly a hidden treasure!

Keith, a good friend and one of the senior management at MMS regularly makes short videos of work or staff up in the hangar, to help those not able to see it all in person get a better understanding of what's going on. Recently he made a slightly different clip where you get to see and hear from Mark. (You can also see this and many more on the MMS Blog.)

Each month a letter is sent to MMS supporters from Dwight Jarboe, the President and CEO of MMS. Here is an excerpt from the March letter which further highlights the global impact of this great organisation.

Having completed three major airplane restorations in our facility late last year and early this year, we are able to respond to a few more requests. Already in 2012, our mechanics have been "on the road". Jim Newman, Mark Beckwith and Andy Swanson were in Papua New Guinea repairing the aft fuselage of a King Air 200 for SIL. Terry McClary and Scott Grote spent consecutive stints in Florida assisting with in-depth wing inspections on two Embraer 110 aircraft for Agape Flights.

More Rapid Response trips are planned. Mike Dunkley is building a new radio package for CMML in Zambia. Later this year he will go install it in a Cessna 207 there and will be accompanied by an MMS apprentice mechanic who will assist him. Even the CEO has gotten the travel bug. The first week of this month finds me in Honduras performing an annual inspection on a Cessna 206 with the pilot/mechanics of Missionary Air Group. 

A full schedule of work continues at our Coshocton facility which, along with our Rapid Response trips, assures that MMS Aviation will keep Preparing People and Planes for Worldwide Mission Service.

In the big scheme of things, we will only be here as part of the MMS family for a short period of time, just 3 years. But what a privilege to part of something that does such great stuff with the ability to impact so many!