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Alaska: Fall 2008 Update!
by Jim Kincaid A year and three months ago, North-western Aviation Services, Inc. began as a business-supported mission project among the Inupiat Eskimo peoples of northwest Alaska. It is a good time to pause and reflect on the blessings of the Lord after a busy season of transporting local villagers, eco-tourers, scientific researchers, petroleum discoverers, gold miners, educators, state troopers, fishermen and some hunters and gatherers. Since we started last year, we have flown some 1200 hours in all kinds of weather from temperatures in the 80s to the minus 30s. We have carried hundreds of local native people to their subsistence camps, funerals, weddings, medical appointments, jail, shopping and every other possible reason. We have striven to build a reputation for integrity, respect, value and Christianity of the highest order. In order to prevent the carriage of alcoholic beverages to the local dry villages, we search all baggage. We have had to turn some people in for attempted importation. Through our lease-back of an AWA mission plane, we have generated more than $24,000 for the mission aviation side to be used both for reserves for engine and prop replacement and for subsidizing the Dillingham AWA mission flying base and aircraft. The Adventist Church in Kotzebue was all but nonexistent just two years ago and now has 10 to 14 attending. This was the summer count, which included several extra Adventists who have helped with the flying business. These few members have contributed more than $18,000 in tithe to the Alaska Conference as a testimony to the faithfulness of the Lord who has sustained us. The roster of Northwestern Aviation Service, Inc. staff this past summer were Jonathan and Sarah Kincaid, chief pilot and office manager respectively, John Payner, pilot and web manager, Mario and Jeanette Maccarone, mechanic and all around expeditor respectively, and Linda and Jim Kincaid, accountant and owner respectively. I have attached a picture which shows our two Cessna 206s at the site of a backcountry drop-off in the northern Brooks Range. Many of our landing areas are in the neighborhood of 700 to 800 feet long. Home | Who We Are | What We Do | Ways to Help | Media |
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