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| Model: Cessna 210 (T210R) Registration: 9Q-CMQ Common Name: R210 |
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Meet "9Q-CMQ"!
This MAF Cessna 210 serving in war-torn Mozambique derives its name from its registration call letters, 9Q-CMQ. Some of its stories are fascinating … many of its flights are lifesaving … all of its service in Mozambique is life-sustaining. Welcome aboard!
9Q-CMQ is an airplane unique to MAF. One of the fastest production single-engine piston airplanes, it is equipped with retractable landing gear, giving it greater speed for its frequent long-distance flights. Mozambique, the most unreached country in southern Africa, stretches as far north and south as the distance between Boston and the southern tip of Florida. With many flights lasting three, four, or even five hours, 9Q-CMQ covers nearly 64,000 miles a year, often traveling into surrounding countries.
For example, when a Bible translation missionary began acting rather strange, becoming agitated and even violent, he needed to be flown to South Africa to receive the best medical care. Flying nonstop, 9Q-CMQ got him to the hospital within five hours. The doctors said that a delay of even a few hours could have resulted in a coma. After surgery to remove a brain tumor, the missionary was flown back to his village to recover.
Several times each year, one Bible translation director completes a two-week circuit of various translation projects. Going from one village to the next aboard 9Q-CMQ, he stays at each location for a day. To make this same circuit by land over improperly rebuilt and maintained roads would mean at least a full-day drive between villages. 9Q-CMQ speeds him there in an hour or less. What a timesaver!
Although Mozambique’s civil war ended more than a decade ago, land mines remaining from the hostilities are still being cleared. One thirty-mile section, where mines are buried about a yard apart, is being cleared by a not-for-profit organization that specializes in this type of work. 9Q-CMQ transports the staff who supervise the mine clearance work, as well as donors who support the project. Occasionally the plane will evacuate a worker stricken with malaria or injured when a mine explodes. Although they do wear protective gear, mine clearance workers can sustain life-threatening injuries.
Most missionaries were forced to leave Mozambique during the war. Although the churches that remain are growing rapidly, they are not yet strong. Many of 9Q-CMQ’s flights are now helping returning missionaries to strengthen those churches and share the Gospel.
Through the MAF Adopt-a-Plane program, you too can play a significant part in this missionary outreach in Mozambique: saving lives, planting and discipling churches, and sharing the love of Jesus Christ.
For just $1 a day, you can adopt 9Q-CMQ and help transform lives through this vital ministry. Please sign up today! On behalf of the missionaries and thousands of Mozambique’s needy who depend on MAF, thank you for your prayers and support. We thank God for you.
