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Submitted Photo Team CrossFit Vokse was the first 20-person team to pull the Sun Country Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane at the inaugural Make-A-Wish North Dakota Plane Pull. The 737-800 weighs about 91,000 pounds empty, and the CrossFit Vokse team pulled it the required 100 feet in 29.47 seconds, which earned them third place in the six-team contest Saturday, Aug. 16, at the Overland Aviation hangar at the XWA Williston Basin International Airport. Photo by Roger Riveland.

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Submitted Photo Members of team Go Wireline LLC make their pull of the Sun Country Airlines plane in the inaugural Make-A-Wish North Dakota Plane Pull, as team captain Tannis Schye, right side of photo, yells vocal coaching commands. Go Wireline LLC won first place. Photo by Roger Riveland.

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Submitted Photo Go Wireline LLC's team won the Make-A-Wish North Dakota Plane Pull event with a pull time of 26.06 seconds. After each pull an aircraft tractor hooked up and pushed the airline back to the starting line. Photo by Roger Riveland.

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Submitted Photo Amanda Godfread, regional director for Make-A-Wish North Dakota from Fargo, presents Tannis Schye, captain of the Go Wireline LLC team, the first-place plaque for top fundraising team, raising $5,180. Photo by Roger Riveland.

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WILLISTON – Six 20-person teams tested their strength in the inaugural Make-A-Wish North Dakota Plane Pull held at XWA Williston Basin International Airport in Williston Saturday, Aug. 16.

The six teams – CrossFit Vokse, Liberty Energy/Wolla Trucking, Overland Aviation, GO Wireline LLC, Magnum Services and XWA-Williston Basin International Airport – competed to see who could pull a Sun Country Airlines passenger jet for 100 feet the fastest.

Go Wireline LLC’s team won the event with a pull time of 26.06 seconds. Go Wireline LLC also won the first-place award for highest fundraising team with a total of $5,180.

The slowest team’s time was 35.86 seconds.

The event included a free lunch, showing of Disney’s “Planes” movie and plane rides.