The Adventist Aviation Service's (AAS) A$1.8 million aircraft, which is the first of its kind to enter Papua New Guinea (PNG) and used to transport food, building supplies, medical staff and medical supplies to remote highland communities, has been featured on the front cover of one of Australia's leading aviation magazines, Australian Flying.

The aircraft, a PAC 750XL, is named P2 SDB. It arrived in PNG in the middle of 2007. 

The March/April 2008 issue of Australian Flying features a front cover photo and also a centrespread article which favourably evaluates the aircraft using photos of the plane in operation with AAS in PNG.

The Pacific Aerospace Ltd company, which produces the PAC 750XL, sent a professional media expert to AAS in PNG in October last year. During his stay with AAS, he gathered video and photos which have since been utilised in the article and also in the company's global marketing films and resources.

Video of the aircraft at work in PNG can be found on YouTube (video embedded below).

The March/April 2008 issue of Australian Flying is available at the newsagents.

Alternatively, read the feature article here (.pdf file, 1.79MB).