CLARKSVILLE, TN – A Props For a Purpose aircraft landed at Destin Executive Airport on Sunday at 11:20 a.m. with 1,132 pounds of relief supplies for communities hit by Hurricane Isaias, about 39 hours after the storm came ashore. It was the nonprofit’s first disaster relief mission flown with an aircraft of its own.
The twin-engine Tecnam P2012 Traveller, named Servant One, left Clarksville Regional Airport at 9:02 a.m. Central, flown by founder and CEO Jacob Bealle with pilot Bryson Bryant. Aboard were chainsaws, hand tools, protective gear, first aid supplies, drinks and a 5,600-watt generator. The supplies were handed over in Destin, and the aircraft was back in Clarksville at 3:31 p.m.
Isaias came ashore near Destin on Friday evening, October 9, with winds of 105 mph, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across the Florida Panhandle, Alabama and Georgia without power…