It was a leftover from World War II, as an Air Force navigational trainer. It carried evangelists throughout the wilderness of Australia until its wooden airframe was condemned 20 odd years later. Now The Dragon now stands in a museum in Scotland. Pilots and teams rent aircraft.
Suitable aircraft are difficult to hire, and the number of teams going out is reducing.
We cannot fulfill requests for transport from evangelists. Airlines and buses do not go where they want to go. Steve Blake was the first outsider invited to go into Boganville after the end of 10 years of civil war. Special charter flight cost were huge, and he had to pay two trips, once to get there and again to be picked up. Chrysalis drama were stranded on Cape York Penensula in July 98, could not continue mission work, as no replacement Aircraft could be found, hired cars and drove over 2,600 miles home.