Moving Airplanes.

Hello everyone, Steven here.
         In November of 2010 three airplanes that had been operating with the mission aviation project in Bolivia were grounded due to customs paperwork. In the mean time while these planes were grounded we were operating some other planes on international flight permissions in Bolivia. This meant that every 30 days we had to make a two and a half hour flight to Brazil if we had no mission flights to do in the neighbouring countries.
        The short version of the long story about the customs papers is that customs duties needed to be paid on the planes in order to get the customs papers. The funding was hung up for a long time, and then after customs duties were paid the customs papers were hung up a long time by customs brokers not doing their job. But praise the Lord, last week the customs papers came through, and now we can do something with these planes!
        These planes are currently located at the South American Missions hangar at an airstrip in Santa Cruz named KM7. The airstrip is at kilo-meter 7 on the old highway that goes to Cochabamba from Santa Cruz. Yesterday we began preparing the plane to remove the wings, and today we removed the wings from a plane getting ready to truck the plane to our airstrip for some repairs after being grounded for so long. Here are some pictures.

Kody a volunteer from the school in Guyararmerin helped Herman and I take the wings off.

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The first wing off.

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Now it is ready to move onto a truck.