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Veterans Airlift Command Founder Walt Fricke assists Army Ranger MSG Cedric King. The organization relies on volunteer aircraft owners and pilots to provide free air transportation for medical and other compassionate purposes to combat-wounded soldiers and their families.
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Chris Gaertner helps a passenger during one of his missions for Angel Flight West, which provides free non-emergency air travel for children and adults with serious medical conditions. The Gaertners fly their 2013 King Air C90GTx as well as Cessna Citations they own, and they always give children they transport a stuffed animal.
Through Advantage Aviation Charter, Chris and Jackie Gaertners’ King Air C90GTx has carried hearts, lungs, kidneys, livers and other organs, along with the surgical teams and patient coordinators involved in the California Organ Transplant Network. Chris Gaertner occasionally flies as part of the required two-pilot crew.
DECEMBER 2016
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