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Angel Flight Soars

Free Medical Mission Flights · About this organization

What you get

A free flight on a volunteer pilot's private aircraft to medical care you can't get locally, when ordinary travel isn't possible or affordable.

How to start

Fill in the online application. Have your doctor’s travel approval ready.

Good to know

  • You must arrange transportation to and from airports.
  • The patient must meet small-aircraft mobility requirements, subject to the under-six carry exception.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Open

Angel Flight Soars coordinates free private-aircraft transportation for patients who need medical care unavailable locally and cannot use or afford ordinary travel. A child age 0–18 with B-ALL can qualify when residing in, traveling to, or traveling through one of the six southeastern service states and meeting the medical stability, mobility, financial or travel-barrier, and aircraft-safety rules. A parent, patient, or healthcare professional completes the online mission intake, supplies physician information and appointment details, and agrees to arrange ground transportation and a backup plan.

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What help you may get

Travel And Transportation

Free Medical Mission Flights — travel and transportation

Angel Flight Soars coordinates free private-aircraft transportation for patients who need medical care unavailable locally and cannot use or afford ordinary travel. A child age 0–18 with B-ALL can qualify when residing in, traveling to, or traveling through one of the six southeastern service states and meeting the medical stability, mobility, financial or travel-barrier, and aircraft-safety rules. A parent, patient, or healthcare professional completes the online mission intake, supplies physician information and appointment details, and agrees to arrange ground transportation and a backup plan.

Noncash help · As Needed

Can cover

  • Volunteer-pilot medical flight

Does not cover

  • Air-ambulance or medical service in flight
  • Ground transportation
  • Guaranteed flight availability
  • Approved flights are provided free of charge.
  • Repeat-mission forms are available for patients who have flown previously.

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 program serves children and adults.

Treatment status

Active Treatment

  • A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.

Financial need is required.

  • No numerical income rule is published on the reviewed official page.
  • The applicant must show inability to afford alternative travel or another qualifying barrier to public transportation.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

You must live in: AL, GA, MS, NC, SC, TN.

  • The patient may reside in, travel to, or travel through one of the six published service states.

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: Caregiver, Healthcare Team, Parent Or Guardian, Patient

  1. Agree to the passenger, baggage, waiver, ground-transportation, and backup-plan requirements.
  2. Complete the online mission intake and eligibility questions.
  3. Coordinate with mission staff while they seek a pilot.
  4. Provide physician and appointment information.

Ways to apply or ask

Documents to prepare

  • Appointment details
  • Mission intake
  • Passenger weights and baggage information
  • Physician contact and medical information
  • Waiver
  • Mission coordinators match qualifying passengers to volunteer pilots and may coordinate with partner organizations.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsOpen
Funding or spaceFund Dependent
Application windowNot Applicable
Last checkedAug 24, 2026
  • The new-patient and repeat-mission systems were active; each mission depends on pilot and weather availability.
  • Submit after the treatment or consultation is scheduled.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • The family must arrange transportation to and from airports.
  • The patient must meet small-aircraft mobility requirements, subject to the under-six carry exception.
  • Weather may cancel the mission.
  • Wheelchairs generally cannot be carried except limited collapsible equipment specified by the program.
  • How does the organization document or score financial need when cost is the qualifying travel barrier?

Official sources

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

Official program