Another domestic company is, Mission Aviation Fellowship catering to non-Catholic registered Christians.

Evans Foundation Scholarship, 1970 ; University of Kansas Honor Scholarship, 1970 ; Summerfield Scholarship, 1970 – 1973 ; Veta B. Lear Award, 1970 ; Stranathan Award, 1972 ; Outstanding Physics Major Award, 1973 ; University of California Regents Fellowship, 1974 ; Group Achievement Award for software testing at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, 1981 ; NASA Outstanding Performance Award, 1981 ; NASA Superior Performance Award, 1981 ; Group Achievement Award for Second Orbiter Test and Checkout at Kennedy Space Center, 1982 ; Quality Increase, 1982 ; NASA Space Flight Medal ( 1984, 1986, 1990, 1997, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for JSC Strategic Planning, 1987 ; NASA Exceptional Service Medal ( 1988, 1991 ); Special Achievement Award, 1988 ; Exceptional Service Medal for Return to Flight, 1988 ; Outstanding Leadership Medal, 1990 ; Special Achievement Award, 1990 ; Haley Flight Achievement Award, 1991 ; Kansan of the Year Award, 1992 ; Group Achievement Award for ESIG 3000 Integration Project, 1994 ; Presidential Rank Award ( 1994, 1999 ); Group Achievement Award for Space Shuttle Program Functional Workforce Review, 1995 ; Group Achievement Award for SFOC Contract Acquisition, 1997 ; Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame, 1997 ; University of Kansas Distinguished Service Citation, 1998 ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal ( 1998, 2000 ); Aviation Week & Space Technology Laurel Citation for Space, 1998, V. M.

* Mission Aviation Fellowship

East African Safari Air Express purchased Eagle Aviations ' two Fokker F28 Fellowship aircraft by a Conditional Sale Agreement dated 30 April 2003 from Aircraft Services Corporation (" ACS ") based in Ireland, a subsidiary of General Electric Aviation Capital (" GECAS ").

Missionary aviation operators AMREF, Mission Aviation Fellowship ( MAF ) and AIM AIR use Wilson Airport as their airport base on the African continent.

The reconstructed frame of Nate Saint's Piper PA-14 Family Cruiser is now on display at the headquarters of Mission Aviation Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho.

* Missionary Aviation Fellowship history

* Mission Aviation Fellowship

* Mission Aviation Fellowship

The plane of Mission Aviation Fellowship missionary Nate Saint is on display at MAF-US headquarters in Nampa, ID.

Mission Aviation Fellowship ( MAF ) is a Christian organization that provides aviation, communications, and learning technology services to more than 1, 000 Christian and humanitarian agencies, as well as thousands of isolated missionaries and indigenous villagers in the world's most remote areas.

The U. S. organization was the first to take to the air, under the name Christian Airmen ’ s Missionary Fellowship ( CAMF ), later known as Mission Aviation Fellowship ( MAF ).

In the U. K., Missionary Aviation Fellowship was initially organized as a wing of the Mildmay Movement ( a Christian outreach organization ), though it later became an independent organization.

Mission Aviation Fellowship is maintaining flights for civilians and aid agencies in two of the Democratic Republic of Congo's current trouble spots.

On 17 December 1994 a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 with registration P2-MFS, operated by the Mission Aviation Fellowship crashed in Papua New Guinea while en route from Tabubil to the nearby village of Selbang.

On 22 February 2005, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 with registration P2-MFQ, operated by the Mission Aviation Fellowship crashed en route from Tabubil to Bimin.

On 23 March 2006 a Cessna 206 aircraft operated by Missionary Aviation Fellowship crashed close to Tari, killing its pilot and injuring 3 passengers.

Mission Aviation Fellowship provides transport services to missionaries, translators, support personnel, consultants, trainers and linguists ; provides medical evacuations ; and assists in disaster relief work.

Since these services involve flying into steep, short, or otherwise difficult runways, Mission Aviation Fellowship provides its personnel with training in STOL and other specialised techniques.

* Mission Aviation Fellowship UK website

* Mission Aviation Fellowship USA website

* Mission Aviation Fellowship USA Recruiting Website

The northern arch of islets is formed by Strawn Island, Cooper Island, Aviation Island, Quail Island, Whippoorwill Island, followed in the east by Eastern Island, Papala Island, and Pelican Island, and in the south by Bird Island, Holei Island, Engineer Island, Tanager Island, Marine Island, Kaula Island, Paradise Island, and Home Island ( clockwise ).

Aviation Traders Limited ( ATL ) was a war-surplus aircraft and spares trader formed in 1947.

The company Link Aviation Devices Inc was then formed, and other sales followed including to the UK Royal Air Force and, ironically in view of the Pearl Harbor attack on 7 December 1941, to the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Arm.

On June 2, 1927 Juan Trippe formed the Aviation Corporation of the Americas ( ACA ) with the backing of powerful and politically connected financiers who included Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and W. Averell Harriman, and raised $ 250, 000 in startup capital from the sale of stock.

The British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ) was a British aircraft manufacturer formed from the government-pressured merger of English Electric Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ), the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 1960.

Polar was formed in 1993 as a joint venture between Southern Air Transport and GE Capital Aviation Services ( GECAS ).

In the Civil Aviation Act of 1946, the state-owned British European Airways ( BEA ) and British South American Airways ( BSAA ) were formed, and the full name British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) was finally applied and accepted throughout the Corporation.

Brooklands Aviation Ltd was formed in 1931 as a holding company to operate the aerodrome, and commissioned British airport architect Graham Dawbarn to design the Art Deco Brooklands Aero Clubhouse, which opened in May 1932.

The site is operated in partnership with Cambridgeshire County Council and the Duxford Aviation Society, a charity formed in 1975 to preserve civil aircraft and promote appreciation of British civil aviation history.

The bureau was formed in 1934 under designer Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev as OKB-115 ( the design bureau has its own production base at the facility № 115 ), but the birthday is considered on 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the AIR-1 aircraft developed within the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP ( Head Agency of Aviation Industry ) under the supervision of A. S. Yakovlev.

British Aerospace was formed on 29 April 1977 by the nationalisation and merger of The British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ), the Hawker Siddeley Group and Scottish Aviation.

When Kong Le retreated from Vientiane, he took with him two usable C-47s and two L-20 Beavers from Aviation Laotienne and formed the Neutralist Laotian Air Force.

* 1934 AVCO acquired the Airplane Development Corporation from Cord and formed the Aviation Manufacturing Corporation ( AMC )

While there were scores of Red Army divisions on the ground formed from specific Soviet republics, there appears to have been very few aviation regiments formed from nationalities, among them being the 1st Latvian Night Aviation Regiment.

In 1997 a U. S .- Chinese group called the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation was formed to locate the aircraft and possibly raise and restore it.

The airline was formed in 1961 by Richard A. Henson as Henson Aviation, a fixed base operator in Hagerstown, Maryland.

However, the projected cost of the project was so high that Sud Aviation, at the direction of the French and British governments, formed a consortium with BAC in November 1962 to merge their design and production efforts to create the Concorde.

Rocketdyne was formed by North American Aviation after World War II to study the German V-2 missile and adapt its engine to SAE measurements and US construction details.

BOAC formed a British European Airways division on 3 January in anticipation of the 1946 Civil Aviation Act, and this new division took over Transport Command's operations.

Hughes did authorize the creation of a small aviation unit to accompany the CEF to Britain and on 16 September 1914, the Canadian Aviation Corps ( CAC ) was formed with two officers, one mechanic, and $ 5000 to purchase an aircraft from the Burgess Company in Massachusetts, for delivery to Valcartier, near Quebec City.

The International Civil Aviation Organization was formed in 1947 under the auspices of the United Nations, and it established Flight Information Regions ( FIRs ) for controlling air traffic and making airport identification simple and clear.

In 1933, Milch took up a position as State Secretary of the newly formed Reichsluftfahrtministerium (" Reich Aviation Ministry " – RLM ), answering directly to Hermann Göring.