Five-year-old Brock was a “beautiful, chubby baby,” according to his mom, Emily. But once he transitioned off formula, he couldn’t tolerate solid foods and wasn’t gaining weight. “He kept growing taller but getting thinner and thinner,” said Emily. Doctors in Brock’s rural Illinois hometown were […]
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Micah is one of Wings of Hope’s frequent flyers. Born with one leg shorter than the other, the now 16-year-old has been flying with Wings of Hope from her home in Kansas to Shriners Children’s St. Louis since she was five. After 16 surgeries and
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This past August, the Wings of Hope Medical Relief & Air Transport (MAT) Program completed 21 patient flights to care. In September, the MAT Program completed 16 flights in Wings of Hope aircraft. These numbers don’t include the limited amount of commercial airline tickets Wings
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PHOTOS: (left) Gracin in October 2017: her first Wings of Hope flight. (right) Gracin in July 2021 after pitching six innings and leading her softball team to the league championship. Thirteen-year-old Gracin was born with one leg shorter than the other. Wings of Hope flew
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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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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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In late August, Wings of Hope officially extended our flight radius for the Medical Relief & Air Transport (MAT) Program from 600 to 900 miles from our St. Louis-area headquarters with the inaugural flight of our recently acquired Navajo. Our first passenger was 14-year-old Joseph
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Being Wings of Hope’s only woman pilot seems notable — to just about everyone besides the pilot in question. After all, this isn’t the first time Leslie Cuppett has been the only woman in the room. She was the only woman in the aviation classes
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Wings of Hope is so pleased to welcome the newest member of its fleet: a 1975 Piper Navajo PA-31-310. President and CEO Bret Heinrich, seen here with Ron Vlach, the Navajo’s former owner, says, “This is an important day for our team and our patients.
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We were recently honored to receive a very special visitor. Sandy Turner’s family once owned our Cessna 206KY. The plane has toured the world saving lives. It is now in St. Louis, and our hangar crew is all-hands-on-deck getting it ready to fly in the
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