- Following World War II, Christian military airmen encouraged by missionary George Fisk, envisioned using airplanes as a tool to reach out in Christian love to isolated people.
- In 1945, pilots in Australia, the UK, and the United States Missionary Aviation Fellowship. The name would later be shortened to Mission Aviation Fellowship in the mid 1960's.
- It was 1946 when MAF officially began operations into Latin America with Betty Greene piloting the inaugural flight of Mexico.
- Throughout the laste 1940's and into the early 1950's, MAF began ministering throughout Africa, Papau New Guinea, Indonesia and Latin America.
- in 1956, MAF made headlines throug hte tragic deaths of five missionaries (including MAF pilot Nate Saint) while bringing the Gospel to the Waorani (Auca) tribe in Ecuador, SA.
- To serve the growing number of Canadians working with MAF projects worldwide, Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada was formed in 1972.
- The work of MAF in providing support to relief and development organizations proved invaluable during the disastrous earthquake, hurricanes and famines of the 1980's. During this time, maf began using larger aircraft life the Twin Otter and the Beech 99.
- In 1989, Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada began using a Cessna Caravan in a new work in the war-torn African country of Angola.
- Today, MAF is a global ministry partnership, operating a fleet of more than 140 aircraft in more than 30 countries around the world.
- Every 3 minutes, somewhere in the world, an MAF pilot and plane take off or land, covering more distance in 6 hours than David Livingstone did in his entire 28 years as a missionary in Africa.
These notes are taken from one of MAF's brochure's.
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