About 40 years after Dave Voetmann began work as an African aviation missionary in Africa, his dream of building a better plane to visit those hard-to-reach jungle settings is nearly complete.
For the 72-year-old Edmonds man, it has taken almost 10 years just to build the Kodiak, a plane he says will modernize aid trips to places like Mok, West New Britain, and Aziana, Papua New Guinea — places too small to even be listed on a world map.