Good Samaritans touch down at Salem Air Park
Gary Bustin, left, and Mark Palm, co-founders of Samaritan Aviation, a Colorado-based ministry that provides medical and mission service flights in places like Papua New Guinea, visited the Salem Air Park on Wednesday, part of a 40-city tour to raise funds and awareness. The two arrived in the area via their new plane, “The Spirit of Paradise,” which will be used in Papua New Guinea starting in November. (Salem News photo by Leonard Glenn Crist)
PERRY TOWNSHIP — A couple of good Samaritans Wednesday touched down at the Salem Air Park. Gary Bustin and Mark Palm, co-founders of Samaritan Aviation, a Colorado-based ministry that provides medical and mission services using airplanes, landed in Perry Township as part of a 40-city tour designed to raise funds and awareness and thank supporters. Bustin and Palm flew in on a newly refurbished Cessna 206 dubbed “The Spirit of Paradise.” The amphibious plane is schedule to arrive in Papua New Guinea in November to provide medical services to remote villages in the Pacific island nation. “Most American’s don’t know a thing about Papua New Guinea,” Bustin said. “They don’t even know where it’s at.” It’s a place Palm, and especially Bustin,who was born there, are quite familiar with. As college roommates in 1994, Bustin and Palm visited the nation and realized the need for aid. The country of about 6 million people, located north of Australia, has one of the most diverse indigen
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