As the morning sun beats down on the tarmac at Katherine airport, Jordan Griffin is readying his small plane for the long day ahead.
The six-seater Cessna is not carrying passengers but is filled instead with mail — from letters and parcels, to schoolbooks, food and medicine.
Travelling along some of the country's most remote postal routes, the young pilot spends his days delivering mail to remote communities and cattle stations dotted across the vast Northern Territory outback.
