Boeing 757 Cargo Aircraft

Samaritan's Purse Aviation

  • Desde 1975 Samaritan’s Purse ha usado aviones para transportar doctores y trabajadores, así como toneladas de comida, medicinas, materiales para la construcción de refugios, cobijas y otros artículos para ayudar a las víctimas de desastres naturales, guerras, hambre y otras emergencias.
  • To support the work of Samaritan's Purse around the world, the aviation arm of Samaritan's Purse operates 24 aircraft, including two helicopters, which are based in strategic locations.
  • The various aircraft are specifically used for ongoing relief and development work in remote areas and are ready to deploy when disasters strike.
  • Samaritan's Purse now operates two cargo planes—a Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 757. These enable Samaritan's Purse to respond at a moment's notice by airlifting tons of emergency relief supplies including Emergency Field Hospitals, shelter material, and water filtration systems anywhere in the world.
  • Since 2016, the international Christian relief organization has flown over 9.1million pounds of cargo on 209 flights to 42 countries out of Greensboro, North Carolina.

Boeing 757

  • In 2022, Samaritan's Purse added a Boeing 757-200PCF airplane to its fleet. The freighter aircraft can carry a maximum load of 67,000 pounds of cargo. The cargo hold is equivalent to the space of three tractor-trailers. With 15 different pallet positions, the 757 has versatile cargo space.
  • Built in 1985, the Boeing 757 was originally used as a passenger plane before being converted to a freighter in 2006. Samaritan's Purse purchased the aircraft in January 2022, and it received final sign-off from the FAA in August 2023 after undergoing extensive upgrades in avionics and communication systems.
  • On Sept. 1, the 757 completed its first relief mission—delivering 24 tons of cargo to Maui, Hawaii, where volunteers helped wildfire victims begin to recover.
  • The Boeing 757 has a range of 3,400 nautical miles—in perspective that would be a nonstop flight from Greensboro, North Carolina, to Lima, Peru.
  • The addition of the 757 to the Samaritan's Purse fleet greatly enhances the organization's ability to respond to disasters around the world.

Greensboro Airlift Response Center

  • The 757 and DC-8 cargo planes are based in the new Greensboro Airlift Response Center.
  • The more than 62,000-square-foot response center is comprised of a 55,500-square-foot hangar, including 46,000 square feet of aircraft parking space, and approximately 6,700 square feet of office space.
  • The facility is staffed by 25 full-time staff, including pilots, flight engineers, load masters, maintenance personnel, and 10 additional part-time and on call personnel.
  • The response center provides the space for maintenance personnel to perform a wide range of aircraft maintenance activities on the DC-8 and 757, which expedites response times.
  • The Greensboro Airlift Response Center opened in November 2022 and is located at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in North Carolina.
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