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Angel Flight Oklahoma

Free Medical and Compassion Flights · About this organization

What you get

Free volunteer-pilot flights for medical care, usually with one approved companion seat.

How to start

Read the flight guidelines, send the online flight request, and obtain your physician’s signed letter. Arrange ground transport and a backup plan.

Good to know

  • Flights may be canceled for weather and require a backup plan.
  • Ground transportation is the family’s responsibility.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Open

Angel Flight Oklahoma arranges free air transportation for legitimate charitable medical needs in Oklahoma and the surrounding heartland states. A child with B-ALL can qualify when the home or treating facility is in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, or Kansas, ordinary air travel is unaffordable or infeasible, and the child can safely travel in a small non-pressurized aircraft with physician approval. The family reviews the patient guidelines, submits the online flight request and signed physician letter, arranges airport ground transportation, and keeps a backup travel plan.

What help you may get

Travel And Transportation

Free Medical and Compassion Flights — travel and transportation

Angel Flight Oklahoma arranges free air transportation for legitimate charitable medical needs in Oklahoma and the surrounding heartland states. A child with B-ALL can qualify when the home or treating facility is in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, or Kansas, ordinary air travel is unaffordable or infeasible, and the child can safely travel in a small non-pressurized aircraft with physician approval. The family reviews the patient guidelines, submits the online flight request and signed physician letter, arranges airport ground transportation, and keeps a backup travel plan.

Noncash help · Per Trip

Can cover

  • Typically one approved companion seat
  • Volunteer-pilot medical flight

Does not cover

  • Emergency medical service
  • Ground transportation
  • Guaranteed flight completion
  • Medical care during flight
  • Approved flights are free.
  • Each flight request is separately coordinated and not guaranteed.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. The official program serves children with cancer or children with serious medical conditions that include cancer; pediatric B-ALL is within that scope.

Age

Age 0 to no published upper limit, measured at service date.

  • The organization serves children and adults.

Treatment status

Active Treatment

  • A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.

Financial need is required.

  • Alternate air transportation must be unaffordable or infeasible; no numeric income ceiling is published.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

You must live in: AR, KS, MO, OK, TX.

  • The patient home or treating facility must be in Oklahoma or a surrounding service state.

Where your child is treated

No treatment-location restriction is published.

How to get started

Get ready to apply

Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.

Who can start: Parent Or Guardian, Patient, Social Worker, Community Referrer

  1. Arrange ground transportation and a backup plan.
  2. Confirm that the home or treating facility is in the service region.
  3. Provide the personally signed physician letter and other flight paperwork.
  4. Review the patient guidelines.
  5. Submit the online flight request.

Ways to apply or ask

Documents to prepare

  • Appointment details
  • Liability waiver
  • Online flight request
  • Passenger and companion information
  • Personally signed physician letter
  • The organization coordinates a volunteer pilot; the family handles ground travel.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsOpen
Funding or spaceFund Dependent
Application windowNot Applicable
Last checkedAug 24, 2026
  • The online patient request process was active; the organization does not guarantee a volunteer pilot.
  • Submit after the appointment is scheduled.
  • The patient guidelines state that most flights need at least five working days to locate a pilot.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • Flights may be canceled for weather and require a backup plan.
  • Ground transportation is the family’s responsibility.
  • The passenger must be ambulatory and safe in a small non-pressurized aircraft without a lavatory.
  • Total baggage over 50 pounds may not be accommodated.
  • How does the organization currently document inability to afford or use alternate air transportation?

Official sources

Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program