Samaritan's Plane
Posted by Status-Neck-3615@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Our island of Saipan was hit by Super Typhoon Sinlaku last week. Saw this unique plane that came to our airport. Thank you all for your help!
thatsvtguy@reddit
Can anyone make out the tail number?
mojo604@reddit
N367SP
thatsvtguy@reddit
Oh hey I saw this plane earlier this week!
Catch399@reddit
Samaritan’s Purse also operates DC 3s. So cool to see them still perform what they were made for.
Kaiisim@reddit
Samaritan's Purse*
Samaritan's is a charity that supports those in mental health crisis.
Samaritan's Purse is a charity that takes donated stuff to war torn or disaster regions, etc. hence they need planes to transport the donations. At Christmas they do a HUGE world wide collection to give presents to kids around the world.
Both are great!
s0y_bean97@reddit
Seen this aircraft at my local airport operating for Qantas freight before being retired and picked up by Samaritan's Purse.
aardvarkjedi@reddit
Did they finally retire their DC8?
funwithfrogs@reddit
Josh Cahill on YouTube did a cool vid about this.
leftonconnor@reddit
Yep. 767-300 and 757-300 are their main fleet now.
Lucky_Outside_2009@reddit
They came all the way to Nepal from USA with their DC8 in Covid as well
PornoPaul@reddit
I hadnt heard about this, how is recovery going?
Status-Neck-3615@reddit (OP)
It's gonna take quite a while to recover but it's moving at a slow but steady pace. Thankfully I have power and running water back, but many are still down with no electricity and water even after a week. Lines were long at gas stations, many camped overnight to stay in line but today lines were short, only a 10 minute wait at most for some people
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Status-Neck-3615@reddit (OP)
Source: OP's iphone, 11:44 am, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Island, Saipan International Airport, Saipan