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In its global efforts to overcome barriers, MAF operates the world's largest fleet of private aircraft used for the public good.
In fiscal year 2006, the MAF fleet of 54 aircraft executed 37,490 flights, logged 3,014,031 miles, transported 116,459 passengers, and delivered 10.2 million pounds of cargo all on 1,700 rough, unimproved dirt and grass airstrips as well as waterways.
More importantly, in the past 12 months, MAF planes saved Christian and humanitarian workers 66,928 days of travel time
or 276.5 work years redeemed for productive Kingdom work!
These flights support Christian workers, evangelists, teachers, medical personnel, as well as relief and development workers. MAF planes haul food, seed, and livestock; transport the sick and injured; deliver doctors, medicine, and relief supplies; and carry the materials for a better life to people who need it most-people others cannot reach.
MAF airplanes are often the only safe and reliable means of transportation for those involved in ministry. In regions without trafficable roads, MAF typically can reduce a missionary's all-day trek by foot to a mere 20-minute flight.
Every 7 minutes, in some of the most remote places on earth, an MAF aircraft either takes off or lands.
One MAF airplane can haul a half-ton of cargo into a region that would otherwise require a train of pack animals, several guides, and weeks of grueling effort to reach by land.
In 1970, only a quarter of MAF passengers were nationals. Today, they represent the majority. Indigenous evangelists and missionary groups, who are the fruit of earlier missionary efforts, are increasingly seeking and reaching the lost and hurting in their own countries.
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