Dear Wings of Hope Family, As we think back on the most used words of the past year, surely one of them will be “pause.” In so many different ways, as a community and as individuals, we were asked to “pause” our regular activities. We […]
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Our mission at Wings of Hope is changing and saving lives through the power of aviation. Here’s how our Medical Relief & Air Transport (MAT) Program is changing one life in a most powerful way. “Wings of Hope has literally saved my life and continues
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Flight Operations Manager Karen Andrews has been scheduling flights and patient schedules for the MAT Program since she joined the Wings of Hope family in 2013. Karen is the liaison who coordinates medical appointments, flights, accommodations and travel between the Wings of Hope flight crew,
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PHOTO: Dick (center) poses with Wings of Hope President and CEO Bret Heinrich (left) and wife, Patsy (right), after final flight. On Nov. 30, 2020, Dick Horowitz landed his last flight as Wings of Hope Chief Pilot. With a crowd of volunteers, staff and family
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Wings of Hope has been working with Flying Medical Service (FMS) in Tanzania supporting fly-in medical clinics — currently using two Cessna 206 planes — for Maasai communities for some 37 years. The clinics focus on pre- and post-natal health, and they vaccinated nearly 24,000
Richard Ju is a Maasai pilot Wings of Hope supported with a scholarship to obtain his private pilot’s license and instrument rating in Florida. Richard grew up watching his mother work as a cook for Flying Medical Service (FMS) and dreamed of someday becoming a
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The excitement surrounding our bi-annual airplane raffles has reached a fever pitch with the April 1 raffle selling out in just under five hours. The first 3,000 tickets sold just one hour after the ticket sales went live — setting a new record. All 5,000
Spring Airplane Raffle Sells Out in Under 5 Hours! Continue Reading >>>
At its March 25 quarterly meeting, the Wings of Hope Board of Directors approved four new members. Leaving the board after nine years of service each are Travis Brown and John Schmidt. Travis was instrumental in creating the much-needed board policy that Wings of Hope
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George Haddaway was an aviation historian who is in the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Houston, and is credited with founding the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas-Love Field Airport. He used his platform as publisher of Flight
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