Internship

What you’ll do

Real work, under supervision.

• In the hangar: inspections, troubleshooting and repairs, logged to PNG CASA standards where permitted.
• On the flight line: pre-flights, fueling and cargo loading.
• On mission flights: flight planning, and observing life flights and medicine runs.
• In the wards: weekly visits with the patients our crews fly in.

Your four weeks

Week 1: arrive, orient and observe. Week 2: hands-on in the hangar. Week 3: the flight line and mission context. Week 4: your capstone maintenance project and send-off. You’ll work Monday to Friday, flexing with flights and maintenance, with an experienced Samaritan Aviation mentor, a daily journal and a weekly review with your mentor.

The ministry half

Every role is a ministry role, and interns see why: weekly hospital visits, Sundays with a PNG congregation, and dinner with our missionary families.

Life in Wewak

Samaritan Aviation housing and transport, an emergency plan, and a team behind you. A few words of Tok Pisin go a long way.

What it costs

About $5,600 for the four weeks, and airfare is most of it. The internship is self-funded.

How it works

Talk to us about your training and your timing. Then come an application, an interview, a background check and the logistics paperwork for flights, visa and insurance, with orientation from our team. We’ll meet you at the airport.

Where it can lead

The Line Pilot role has no minimum hours. The Line Mechanic role starts with an A&P certificate and at least a year of aircraft maintenance experience. An A&P plus flight time is the profile we need most.