Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF), based in Idaho, USA, was formed in 1945 by three World War II pilots to provide air services to missionaries in remote areas. Today MAF has a fleet of 53 aircraft flying over 3-million miles each year to remote areas in 26 countries around the world.

In addition to providing transport services for missionaries and physicians and relief personnel, MAF provides emergency medical evacuations for native people, sets up communication equipment (radio, internet access, etc.), delivers food and supplies, and aids in emergency disaster relief aid.

In September, 2007, MAF is working to help the victims of Hurricane Felix which has caused an estimated 50,000 people in Nicaragua to lose everything they own, especially those on the Caribbean coast.

Along with delivering relief supplies from America, MAF is using a DC-3 plane and a Cessna to fly food and supplies from the the capital city of Managua to the devastated coastal areas. For the donated goods by native Nicaraguans and relief agencies around the world, the air flights by MAF help deliver the goods to remote areas where damaged dirt roads have made truck travel very difficult.

Following the tsunami in 2005, MAF conducted over 1,114 relay flights to Meulaboh, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia … delivering 387,743 lbs of food to some 60,000 victims.

Current programs are operating in countries such as Congo, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal, Indonesia, Ecuador, Haiti, Brazil, Honduras, Suriname, Guatemala and Kazakhstan.

Affiliated Mission Aviation Fellowship offices are located in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, Korea, Denmark United Kingdom, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, Suriname, and Singapore.