Thu, Jan 28, 2010
Company King Air Can Carry Up To 1,300 Pounds Of Supplies
L-3 Avionics Systems’ chief pilot, Todd Scholten, and
Mark Linsley, aftermarket business development representative and
pilot, left Tuesday afternoon to deliver desperately needed medical
supplies for the Haiti earthquake relief effort. They will fly L-3
Avionics’ company King Air C90 aircraft. L-3 Avionics and
sister division ACSS, have donated a total of $25,000 for fuel and
aircraft expenses to conduct six to eight relief flights. The
aircraft can hold approximately 1,300 pounds of medical supplies
per trip.
“The employees of L-3 Avionics Systems are a very caring
and generous group, and these flights represent their commitment to
help others in need,” said Jay LaFoy, president of L-3
Avionics. “L-3 Avionics and ACSS are donating the funds for
this effort on behalf of our employees.” The International
Association of Missionary Aviation (IAMA) notified Mr. Linsley that
pilots and aircraft were urgently needed to transport medical
supplies to Haiti.
IAMA connected the L-3 Avionics’ pilots with G.O.
Ministries, a 501c3 organization headquartered in Louisville, KY,
which has aid bases in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. This
organization is dispersing medical supplies to Haiti through
Santiago, Dominican Republic, with a team of pilots flying shifts
24 hours a day. The L-3 Avionics’ pilots will fly supplies to
a G.O. Ministries base in Santiago where G.O. Ministries volunteer
pilots will fly the remaining leg into Haiti.
L-3 Avionics’ Roger Powers, principal engineer and test
pilot, and James Powers, aircraft maintenance technician (A.M.T.)
will be assisting the effort by driving supplies from G.O.
Ministries in Louisville to Florida, where the King Air can quickly
reload and make multiple flights between Florida and the Dominican
Republic.
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