DIXFIELD – Jungle Aviation and Radio Service, the technical division of Wycliffe Bible Translators, will return to Swan’s Airfield, just off the Canton Point Road, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Sept. 2, 3 and 4. The public is invited to take part in a unique flight experience at Missions-at-the-Airport.

Flights will be available from 9 a.m. to dusk Saturday, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday. There will also be several scheduled precision flight demonstrations.

Last September, several hundred passengers lined up for aerial views, courtesy of a Short Takeoff and Landing single-engine airplane or a Robinson R-44 Raven II helicopter. The vehicles are part of the service’s worldwide fleet of 31 single-engine aircraft, eight multi-engine aircraft and three helicopters, serviced by 60 pilots, 39 mechanics and seven flight engineers. They serve Wycliffe missionaries in the United States, South America, Africa and the Asian/Pacific region.

As before, for a nominal fee of $15 a person for the STOL or $20 for the R-44, guests will take short flights over homes, schools, businesses and area landmarks.

For those who like to keep their feet on the ground, there will be resource information, demonstrations of translation and support technology and various presentations provided by field workers.

One of this year’s pilots is Lenard “Nard” Pugyao, a native of the Philippines, who, along with other pilots, will speak in area churches Sunday. Nard will be the featured speaker at a special union service at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 3, at the Dixfield Common Baptist Church.

Representatives from local Bible camps, sponsoring churches and Child Evangelism Fellowship of Western Maine will also be available. Music will be provided by area talent, such as Fishers of Men, Tim Cormier and the Peru Baptist Worship Team, “Holiday” Alan Hutchinson, Timothy Blodgett, New Beginnings and Tony Rea and the Mexico First Baptist Worship Team.

Leslie Swan will visit around the field with her puppets, and food vendors will be on the scene.

For more information, contact Pastor Ken Hinkley at Dixfield Common Baptist at 562-9259 or contact Ken Couch at 357-1250 or [email protected].