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Operation Airdrop activates GA community to respond
to natural disasters
by MeLinda Schnyder
Robert Johnson saw a Facebook post in August 2017 from friend Doug Jackson asking fellow general aviation pilots in the Dallas area to help in an effort he was leading to fly critically-needed relief supplies to small airports in coastal Texas. While ground transportation was unsafe due to catastrophic flooding, aircraft could land with basic necessities to be dispersed to people displaced from their homes by Hurricane Harvey, a devastating Category 4 hurricane that ravaged the Texas coast from Corpus Christi to Beaumont, including the greater Houston area.
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Operation Airdrop board members Robert Johnson (left) and Larry Robicheaux on loca- tion during Hurricane Ida in September 2021. Johnson’s King Air E90 is loaded with food and supplies being delivered to southern Louisiana. Each of the black coolers has 250 servings of food prepared by Operation BBQ Relief.
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