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Upcoming Events
Planes, Trains & BBQ, April 7, 2012
Air Show, Seaplane rides, train rides, state sanctioned BBQ competition, car show and musical entertainment throughout the day.
Wooton Park, Tavares, FL
Banyan Pilot Shop Customer Appreciation Day at KFXE April 7, 2012
Saturday April 7, 2012 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM EDT
Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport
Mercy Flight Southeast/ Air Care Alliance Conference and board meeting
Saturday April 14, 2012 at 8:00 AM EDT -to- Sunday April 15, 2012 (our board meeting) at 1:00 PM EDT
The ACA is pleased to invite you to the 2012 AIR CARE conference, which will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana at Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel on Friday & Saturday, April 13th & 14th 2012.
New Orleans / Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel
Run for the Angels 5K Event April 20, 2012 Orlando
Friday April 20, 2012 at 6:00 PM EDT
The Orlando Executive Airport, is having a 5K run/walk April 20th to benefit Angel Flight Southeast! We are limiting the 5K Run to the first 250 runners/walkers that want to sign up and support Angel Flight SE. ! A unique run on taxiways and a runway to support a great cause!
Greater Orlando Aviation Authority Community Bldg.
Gainesville Regional Airport 2nd Annual Gator Fly-In April 28, 2012
Saturday April 28, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT
The Gainesville Regional Airport is excited to invite you to its 2nd Annual Gator Fly-In to be held at the University Air Center ramp. Admission and parking are free.
Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV) University Air
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Adopt & follow a flight
Feather Sound Country Club, ClearwaterJoin us at the beautiful Feather Sound Country Club for a great round of golf including a helicopter ball drop, putting contest, silent auction, lunch, dinner and more to raise much needed money for Angel Flight! Register soon for early-bird discounts.
Sign up here
November 12th
Golf Tournament
Leesburg, FL
Arlington Ridge Golf Club
Sign up here
Pilots
Pilot tele-forum
For feedback, suggestions
and questions answered regarding missions
First Tuesday every month at 7pm
Next forum is May 1
(712) 432-0080
949489# via join.me
Wings
West Palm Beach Wing
First Thursday 6:30pm (next one 5/3)
every month
Galaxy FBO
Galaxy FBO West Palm Beach International (KPBI)
St. Pete Wing/Tampa
Third Wednesday
6:30pm every month
Next meeting is April 18
Location varies
For more information on our monthly meetings, call the office at
(352) 326-0761
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| Sun n Fun 2012- Fantastic event!
Amelia in front of Pilot Mall
Thank you to all that helped out to make this event a big success! Amelia (our Piper Aztec float) is back at home, and we have our next event tomorrow in Tavares FL; Trains Planes, & BBQ. Thanks to PilotMall this year we had two booths to sign up dozens of pilots, hand out hundreds of brochures, take in donations, hand out bottles of water to cool down attendees and vendors and have a great time in Lakeland, FL.
Special thanks to:
David Silseth, Mike Winter, Gloria Simonson, John Leavitt, Tom Wallace, Lincoln Annas, Joni Smith, Bob Duncan (worked the booths)
Shirley-Ann Lennox (booth and loaned us her RV for 7 days)
Bruce Brown (Event Chair, booth & ran our Texas Hold'em Tourney)
Bruce Brown (Mission coordinator, booth and more)
Kathy Grange (Workin' the event coordination magic from the home office, setting up the booths on Sat)
Alan Hoffberg (photographer)
Andrew Howell (sold a donated car for during the event)
Neil Glazer (Donated air-conditioned space, continuous support, use of your golf carts, making plaques for 99 of our pilots HUGE thanks)
Steve King (Really pushing the Hold'em tourney for us, bringing us celebrity Bobby Bonilla ex-pro baseball player and the CEO of Eclipse Jet and non-celebrity players, filling in at the booth, and being ever-supportive, thanks. Also, Steve K placed 4th in the Tournament!!)
Johnny & Amy Pineyro (donated great cupcakes to hand out for donations)
Johnny & Michele F (Out there bringing us emergency supplies and selling Hold'em tix to the vendors)
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
Off to a rough start with a flat tire
Angel Flight booth inside Pilot Mall
Vice-Chairman Steve King at the final table
Bruce Brown with Ex-Pro baseball player Bobby Bonilla and Steve at our Texas Hold'em Tournament
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Pilot spotlight
These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions.
Brett Stephens
Allen Brinkerhoff
Mark Spencer x2
Vince Corrado
Mookie Bahiri x2
Mark Herrmann x2
Bob Wall
Steve High x2
Rodger Knox
Tom Evernham
Dr. Hahn x4
George Robbins x2
Mike McTeague x11
David Walker x6
Dr. Roode
Charles George
Dr. "T" Tayapongsak
Phil Gross
Mary Sittman x2
Fred Cutting
Jim Jordan x2
Dan Barreto
Francisco Murillo
Greg Frost x2
Jerry Trachtman
Latas Edwards x2
Kirk Cianciolo x8
Bill Shivers x11
Charlie Gould x2
Steve Purello x2
Don Bradford
John Thomas
Dr. Sparks
Peter Marshall
Don Roberts
Marc Miller x4
Dr. Lippisch x4
Ed McDonald
Greg Banfield x2
David Rivero x2
Michael Hoover
Barbara Mathews
Randy Rolf
Jack Alexander
David Taisch
Jon Morris
Jim Jordan
Gerald Kenney
198 mission legs were coordinated 3/17 - 4/6!
Nestor, Jasmine & Steve
Nestor in his flight suit
Nestor Jasmine and our newest Earth Angel: Julia
Bob, Steve, Steve & Mitsy
Pilot Marc Miller with passengers Hugh Culbreath and Julandis Kendrick getting ready for Angel Flight from Governor's Harbor Eleuthera, Bahamas to St. Petersburg, FL
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Pilots: Please send your photos via your smart-phones to: info@mercymail.org. We'll get them posted on our social networks so we get some additional PR.
Thank you for all of your time and energy.
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Run for the Angels 5K run April 20
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Online Registration for our 1st Official "Run for the Angels 5K" is STILL AVAILABLE!!
Don't wait any longer! Sign up today! The online registration site has been created by Angel Flight Southeast to make it super easy to sign up. Sign up now as we only have 250 spots available this year. The cost is $15 until April 8th. If there are still spots available, the cost is $20 from the 9th of April to race day.
Remember, to run or walk in this event you will have to be 18 or older. Please do not register anyone under the age of 18, as they will be told they will not be able to participate. However, we are still looking for more volunteers of ALL ages, and will welcome those who want to help at the various areas around the course.
Click hereto register
We already have a few vendors and sponsors for our 5K, and expect several more before race day. Fruit and water will be provided at the finish line, and O'Boys BBQ will be selling great food with a portion of the sales going to Angel Flight SE. So bring some extra $'s for a great sunset dinner at the airport!
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Don't miss out on an opportunity to to sponsor and attend this great event at The Feather Sound Country Club in Clearwater Florida.
In particular, we need your help in finding some more sponsors to support our event, and ultimately, our charity!
Please call Bill Shivers at (727) 385-9942 with any leads, connections or direct donations for this great cause.
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| Angel Flight Southeast nominated for the 3rd year in a row- this year as part of Air Charity Network | |
Lightspeed Aviation Foundation Partners with AOPA and EAA to Announce Finalists for 2012 Pilot's Choice Awards
Lakeland, FL. -- March 28, 2012 -- The Lightspeed Aviation Foundation has announced the names of 20 charities, selected from hundreds of nominees, which will benefit from grants to be awarded this year. The Foundation is launching its third year of partnering with the pilot community to identify worthy causes and to give pilots a voice in who they will support to make a lasting difference. Nearly $250,000 has been awarded in the first two years reaching well over 100,000 lives with services, training, and inspiration.
The announcement was made from the Nikon Media Center at the Sun 'n Fun International Fly-In and Expo in Lakeland, Florida. Charities selected are: Air Charity Network, Angel Flight East, Angel Flight Soars, AOPA Foundation, Aviation Career Enrichment, Bahamas Habitat, Build A Plane, Civil Air Patrol, EAA Chapter 44, EAA Chapter 106, Hope Air, JAARS, Liga International-The Flying Doctors of Mercy, Mission Aviation Fellowship, The Ninety-Nines, Planes of Fame AirMuseum, Recreational Aviation Foundation, Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum, Wings of Hope and Youth Aviation Adventure.
Your vote for the Air Charity Network will help us raise $10,000!
All aviation enthusiasts will be invited to vote in the Pilot's Choice Awards online at LightspeedAviationFoundation.org. The top five charities, as chosen by the aviation community, will each receive a check for no less than $10,000.
Lightspeed Aviation customers will also have a special opportunity to participate whenthey register their Lightspeed headsets and vote in the Customer Choice Awards. The top five customer choice vote recipients will each receive award gifts of $5,000 each and every finalist will receive a grant of no less than $1,000.
Allan Schrader, Lightspeed Aviation president, says, "We're more excited than ever about the impact we can make together to grow the aviation community. Organizations like AOPA and EAA have allowed us to join with them in reaching out to bless other organizations that are doing "Good" in the aviation community. It's certainly our sincere hope that pilots, aviation enthusiasts, for-profit and non-profit organizations will join in the efforts to grow aviation and make a positive impact on our world."
Since 1996, Lightspeed Aviation has emerged as the innovation leader in aviation headsets for the professional or general aviation pilot. From comfort and clarity to technological advances and customer support, Lightspeed Aviation and its signature headset Zulu.2, have become the premium standard in aviation headsets.
Your vote for the Air Charity Network will help us raise $10,000!
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