This is the newest Caravan to our fleet, just returning from up north.
Some relatively non-moving aircraft. In the back is a Shorts Skyvan which has only gone further down into the grass since I've been here in Nairobi. Then on the right is a Cessna 210L, which a friend of ours flies regularly. Then center and left are two Twin Commanders. The one on the right has Garrett turbine engines on it, and the one on the left still has the piston Lycomings. I've seen neither of them fly.
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Mr. Roberts:
The AC-690 (Garret engines, formerly N123MG) I believe used to belong to a group called Life Ministries. The pilot/operator, Mike Grinnell, was killed in plane crash Christmas Eve, 1988 in the Imatong Mountains, Sudan. He was attempting to fly back from Sudan where 3MG had a runway mishap and collapsed the right main gear the previous day. At that time, it was illegal to fly in Sudan without permission from the GOS. We spent 3 days of search and rescue for looking for him and his co-pilot on the flight path from Nairobi to Loki and up to the border. They were flying the Life Ministries C-337 at the time.
The AC-500 with the Lycoming IO-540s belonged to a former missionary pilot who stepped out of missions and began to fly private charters (mostly hunters to TZ and DRC and CAR, but some rumored clandestine flying in Sudan during the civil war in the '80s). I cannot remember his name, but Denny or Jim may be able to recall it. When I was in Kenya in 2003, he was still there and was flying Mike's 690.
Hope that helps...thanks for the memories and, nice rainbow pic.
Steve Harris, former AIM-AIR '87-'89, '02-'03.
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