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Air Charity NetworkTM member organizations and their generous volunteers are on the front line every day of the year helping people in need access life-saving specialized medical care. The national network also arranges flights of compassion including travel for military personnel and their immediate families as well as missions of disaster response. Last year alone, the 7,200+ volunteer pilots and the thousands of additional ground crew volunteers helping with outreach made over 23,000 flights possible. Based on those numbers, it is estimated that nearly 90% of the non-emergency charitable flights in the United States are being coordinated through Air Charity NetworkTM.
Passengers on these flights are never charged for the transportation arranged through the network. It is provided by volunteer pilots who receive no monetary compensation whatsoever for their time, talent, airplane, fuel and operating expenses. Corporate aviation departments and airlines are also easily-accessed through the Air Charity NetworkTM. This charitable story of leveraging resources to meet needs on such a large scale is unique and compelling. The network and its member organizations exist solely through donations from individuals, companies, organizations and foundations that cover the many expenses associated with matching passengers in need with charitable aviation resources.
For more information, to donate and to volunteer review the pages on this website, or call the national toll-free number which will direct callers to the appropriate member organization for their area: 1-877-621-7177.
Air Charity Network™ is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt charitable organization.
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AIR CHARITY NETWORK™ FAST FACTS
- Air Charity NetworkTM (ACN) is the largest charitable air transportation organization in the world. And, with more than 7,500 volunteer general aviation pilots, Air Charity NetworkTM is the largest volunteer pilot organization in the nation. We are the only charitable aviation organization in the United States offering access within all 50 states.
- Air Charity NetworkTM represents over 90% of all charitable aviation non-emergency flights flown in the nation.
- Air Charity NetworkTM regional mission coordination teams handle more than 40,000 requests for assistance annually.
- In 2006, Air Charity NetworkTM arranged flights for more than 34,000 passengers on 22,000 missions.
- 1/3 of Air Charity NetworkTM mission flights are for children and 2/3 for adults and senior citizens with hundreds of different illnesses, challenges and personal crises.
- Each dollar donated generates $3-4 worth of flight services delivered to people in need who live in rural and urban communities across the nation.
- Volunteer pilots who fly, and often own, general aviation airplanes “provide” the transportation by donating their time, talent, airplane, and fuel expenses.
- Air Charity NetworkTM exists solely on donations from individuals, corporations, organizations, foundations and work place giving campaigns.
- Cash donations allow Air Charity NetworkTM to make life-saving connections by supporting volunteer pilots and serving people in need.
- Disaster response . . . After 9/11, volunteer pilots were called upon to transport American Red Cross personnel, booties for the rescue dogs, and many other people and supplies. In the midst of response to Hurricane Katrina, over 2,500 missions were flown through Air Charity NetworkTM to reunite families separated during the evacuation of flood-ravaged areas and to relocate families out of shelters to safe housing elsewhere.
For more information, to donate and to volunteer visit www.aircharitynetwork.org.
Air Charity Network™ is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt charitable organization.
Copyright © Air Charity Network™ 2007. Revised May 2007
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