Wings Flights of Hope
Free medical flights · About this organization
What you get
Free volunteer-pilot flights to medical care for you and, if space permits, a companion. Possible volunteer rides at your destination; repeat treatment trips can be arranged.
How to start
Fill in the flight request with appointment and passenger details. Arrange your doctor's travel clearance.
Good to know
- Mission timing, companion space, ground transport, and completion are not guaranteed.
- You must be medically stable and able to board.
The details, as published
Wings Flights of Hope coordinates free volunteer-pilot flights for medically stable children and adults traveling to nonemergency care, surgery, or transplant-related treatment. Continued trips may be requested as long as treatment requires, but every mission depends on pilot acceptance.
What help you may get
Travel And Transportation
Free medical flights — travel and transportation
Wings Flights of Hope coordinates free volunteer-pilot flights for medically stable children and adults traveling to nonemergency care, surgery, or transplant-related treatment. Continued trips may be requested as long as treatment requires, but every mission depends on pilot acceptance.
Noncash help · Per Trip
Can cover
- Air travel for a family member accompanying the patient
- Companion when aircraft capacity permits
- Possible volunteer destination ground transportation
- Volunteer-pilot flight for the patient
- Volunteer-pilot medical flight
- The flight is provided at no charge; no cash award is made.
- The site does not publish a lifetime flight limit.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. Potentially applicable to a United States pediatric B-ALL patient or family when current program-specific criteria are met.
Age
Age 0 to no published upper limit, measured at service date.
- The official page states that both children and adults are flown.
Treatment status
Active Treatment
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- The patient must be medically stable for travel in a small aircraft.
Financial need is required.
- No numerical income rule is published in the reviewed material.
- The program serves patients who lack practical or financial access to distant care; no numerical income threshold is published.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: Recorded restrictive authored residence list; broader footprint descriptions remain unresolved..
- Authored residence list is narrower than the recorded overall service footprint; the record contains no verbatim wider residence enumeration. Confirm the residence rule.
Where your child is treated
No treatment-location restriction is published.
How to get started
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, Social Worker
- Complete the live flight-request portal.
- Confirm the patient is medically stable and can board a small aircraft.
- Contact the mission coordinator or submit the flight request.
- Have the physician return medical clearance.
- Keep a backup plan because weather or pilot availability may cancel a mission.
- Provide a firm appointment and await volunteer-pilot acceptance.
- Provide appointment, passenger, and medical-release information requested by the coordinator.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
- Online Portal · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
- The mission coordinator matches an approved request with a volunteer pilot.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Call To Confirm |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- Requests are accepted for scheduled medical travel.
- Official pages give at least one week and ideally two weeks; use two weeks when possible.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Advance-notice guidance conflicts across official pages; two weeks is the conservative planning rule.
- Flights use small general-aviation aircraft.
- Mission timing, companion space, ground transport, and completion are not guaranteed.
- New passengers should request about two weeks ahead; current pages contain shorter conflicting notice guidance.
- Pilot and weather availability are not assured.
- Small aircraft are unpressurized and not medically staffed.
- The patient must be medically stable and able to board.
- Confirm current capacity, exact access requirements, and response time.
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Free medical flights · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Frequently Asked Questions — Wings Flights of Hope · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Request a Flight — Wings Flights of Hope · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Where We Fly — Wings Flights of Hope · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Who We Fly — Wings Flights of Hope · checked Aug 23, 2026