📍Location: Papua New Guinea 📆 Type of Contract: 12-month fixed-term, part-time (24 hours per week / 3 days a week)
There are places in Papua New Guinea where roads fade into rivers, mountains rise like walls, and a small aircraft is not a convenience but a lifeline.
Mission Aviation Fellowship PNG is seeking four qualified Mission Pilots ready to trade routine routes for runway strips carved from jungle and mountainside.
We deliver medical evacuations, transport health workers and church teams, carry relief supplies, and connect isolated communities to vital services. Every flight has a name. Every landing has a purpose.
🚀 Start Date: On going opportunities
🕒 Application Deadline: Enquiries open for 2026
As a Mission Pilot, you will safely and efficiently operate MAF aircraft in accordance with company policies and procedures, while actively contributing to operational effectiveness, quality, and safety across the programme.
This is more than flying from A to B. It is flexibility in action. You may serve in operational, safety, or quality roles alongside your flight duties, supporting the broader mission and strengthening programme excellence.
You will fly with skill. You will lead with integrity. You will serve with heart.
As a Christian mission organisation, applicants must provide a Pastor’s reference confirming active church involvement and Christian character. This is aviation ministry. Your faith is not parked at the hangar door.
Housing allowance as part of the employment package
A professional, mission focused working environment
The opportunity to serve some of the most remote communities in the world
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If you are ready to use your licence as a lifeline and your cockpit as a place of calling, we would love to hear from you.
The mountains are high. The need is greater. The runway is waiting. ✈️
Essential Qualifications
Minimum Grade 12 education
Mandatory Flight Experience
ICAO recognized Commercial Pilot License (CPL) with Instrument Rating (IR)
Valid Aviation Medical Certificate Class 1 on entry (Class 2 acceptable during operations as per regulations)
Minimum 1,000 total flight hours
Highly Regarded Experience
PT6 turbine engine experience
Cessna 208 (C208) experience
Remote or short field operational experience
Please submit:
Updated CV
Evidence of total flight hours
Copies of relevant qualifications
Mission Aviation Fellowship was founded in 1945 by a group of WWII pilots who had a vision for how aviation could be used to help spread the Gospel.
Since those early days, we have been an indispensable partner and servant to some 500 Christian organizations, humanitarian agencies, and more. We enable and maximize evangelism and church nurturing, medical assistance, disaster response, and community development, as well as the training and development of indigenous people.
Using aviation, we desire to see isolated people changed by the love of Christ by serving together to bring help, hope, and healing. We meet the physical and spiritual needs of isolated people in 42 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Eurasia and Latin America, operating a fleet of 47 light aircraft. Dedicated missionary families raise their own ministry support to serve as the hands and feet of Christ to those in need.
