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During the week of 2026's EAA AirVenture, a seaplane that the Christian missions organization Samaritan Aviation uses in Papua New Guinea, is using Lake Winnebago as its runway.
On Thursday, FOX 11 Valley Reporter David Go took a ride in one of its seaplanes with CEO/founder Mark Palm as the pilot.
Palm grew up in a family of aviators but with a father working as a minister.
He did missions work in Mexico, developing a love for other cultures. He then started Samaritan Aviation in 2000.
Samaritan flies people from 119 villages to receive medical care, often cutting a three-day trip by canoe down to a one-hour plane ride. Palm estimates his team of six pilots has saved thousands of lives and delivered several hundred thousand pounds of medical supplies to remote areas, all while having no accidents.
The organization is primarily funded by donors, mostly from the U.S. and Australia.
Read more: https://fox11online.com/news/local/watch-stories-and-the-view-from-inside-a-pacific-samaritan-mission-seaplane-eaa-airventure-plane-flying-christian-religion-lake-winnebago
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