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Give Props

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The following is the story of a, perhaps, prophetic t-shirt given to Steve by our daughter Megan several years ago. One Christmas our daughter Megan ordered a t-shirt online for her dad. The shirt had an outline of a little airplane with the words "Give Props" above the said image. It was cute since Steve is a pilot of  small airplanes and around that time we were raising money for a new propeller for our Gabon program's Cessna 207. Fast forward to last Fall 2017 when Steve was contacted by Ron- a pilot who was considering donating his airplane, a Diamond DA20, to MAG.  Ron had been renting a few planes he owned to local flight instructors and was ready to move away from that rental business. Ron had heard of MAG through Damon Whitlow, one of the flight instructors who had rented the Diamond aircraft from Ron. Whitlow was a volunteer for MAG at the time. Steve initially asked Ron to consider another organization to donate the Diamond aircraft as MAG has a small fl