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When an earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, a group of volunteer pilots coordinated 715 flights that brought more than a million pounds of critical supplies to the island nation and transported 3,800 passengers, including medical personnel, injured patients and relief workers.
Pilots and aircraft owners have donated 13,000 flights to wounded veterans for medical and other compassionate purposes covering more than 7.8 million miles through Veterans Airlift Command.
Volunteers in all 50 states fly more than 15,000 rescue animals each year for Pilots N Paws, just one of many organizations devoted to animal transport.
Milwaukee animal rescue pilot Chris Roy and his wife Daphne launched Doobert.com in 2014 based on a software platform Chris invented to help with coordinating and mapping volunteer flights. The growing site currently connects about 400 rescue groups, shelters and transport groups with 13,000 volunteers who have registered on the site, including
about 500 pilots.
see more King Air pilots participate – whether for one flight a month or one a year. The same characteristics that made the King Air your choice for air transportation are also valuable to these non-profits: safety, dependability, pressuriza- tion, climate control, cargo and passenger capacity.
Every day of the year there are flights taking off across the U.S. and across borders to assist with patient and non-emergency medical transport, disaster relief, animal rescue, environmental causes, and educational and public services support. These flights wouldn’t happen without the volunteers who donate their time, aircraft and operating expenses.
Many of these organizations say they are lucky to count King Air pilots among their volunteers; all would love to
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In the spirit of the giving season, we would like to introduce King Air readers to some of the personalities in the volunteer pilot community and the resources available. We hope
you’ll be inspired.
Referral Sites
A great place to start if you’re thinking of volunteering is a referral website that lists a variety of groups seeking pilots. You’ll learn a little about many organizations, then you can dig deeper into those that connect with your passion or operate in your area.
DECEMBER 2016