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Air Charity Network™ (ACN) provides access for people in need seeking free air transportation to specialized health care facilities or distant destinations due to family, community or national crisis. Every 24 minutes a child or adult in need is being flown through the generous volunteer and donor resources of this charitable aviation network.

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Air Charity Network (ACN) is the largest charitable air transportation organization in the world. And, with more than 7,500 volunteer general aviation pilots, Air Charity Network 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 Network represents over 90% of all charitable aviation non-emergency flights flown in the nation.
Air Charity Network’s regional mission coordination teams handle more than 50,000 requests for assistance annually.
In 2006, Air Charity Network arranged “free flights” for more than 35,000 passengers on over 22,000 missions.
1/3 of Air Charity Network 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 Network exists solely on cash and in-kind donations from individuals, corporations, organizations and foundations allowing its members 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 rescue dogs, and many other people and supplies. In response to Hurricane Katrina, over 2,300 missions were flown 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 Call 1-877-621-7177 to reach a member organization in your area for assistance.

Revised June 2007