## AFSE/MFSE/ACN Fast Facts – Docket FAA - 2011 - 1070

October 5, 2011 Supplement to Docket FAA - 2011 - 1070 - 0001 Page 1 **A NGEL**  **F LIGHT**  **TM S OUTHEAST/** **MERCY F**  **LIGHT TM S**  **OUTHEAST FAST FACTS**  For more than 25 years, Angel FlightTM Southeast/Mercy FlightTM Southeast (AFSE/MFSE) has coordinat ed free air transportation for children and adults with medical or compelling humanitarian needs . AFSE/MFSE is an IRS 501(c)(3) organization of more than 650 volunteer pilots who utilize their own aircraft, fuel and time to provide free air transportation to medical facilities for citizens who are financiall y distressed or otherwise unable to travel on public transportation. Angel Flight Southeast also coordinates missions to fly organ transplant candidates, people involved in clinical trials, chemotherapy o r other repetitive treatment, victims of abuse seeking relocation, families receiving help from Ronald McDonald Houses, Shriners Hospitals and many other charities, disabled or sick children to special summer camp programs, and for many other humanitarian reasons. For 2006, AFSE/MFSE and its group of all volunteer pilots on average fl e w 1, 674 mission s , including 29 transplant patients. Th ese flown missions represent approximately 54 % of the 3,091 missions actually

scheduled/coordinated during 2006, on acco unt of patient cancellations, weather, or/ and unavailability of aircraft/pilot . AFSE/MFSE belongs to the Air Charity NetworkTM (ACN) which comprises independent member organizations identified by specific geographical service area. Member organizations include Airlift Hope NC - TN, Angel Flight Central, Angel Flight Mid - Atlantic, Angel Flight Northeast, Angel Flight Southeast, Angel Flight West and Mercy Flight Southeast . **AIR CHARITY NETWORKTM FAST FACTS** 

 Air Charity

Network 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. It is the onl y 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 regional mission coordin ation teams handle more than 40,000 requests for assistance annually .  In 2006, Air Charity Network arranged flights for more than 34,000 passengers on 22,000 missions.  1/3 of Air Charity

Network mission flights are for children and 2/3 for adults and senio r citizens with hundreds of different illnesses, challenges and personal crises.  Each dollar donated generates $3 - 5 worth of flight services delivered to people in need who live in rural and urban communities across the nation.  Volunteer pilots who fly , an d often own, general aviation airplanes “provide” the transportation by

donating their time, talent, airplane, and fuel expenses.

## AFSE/MFSE/ACN Fast Facts – Docket FAA - 2011 - 1070

October 5, 2011 Supplement to Docket FAA - 2011 - 1070 - 0001 Page 2  Air Charity

Network exists solely

on donations from individuals, corporations, organizations, foundations and work place givin g campaigns.  Cash donations allow Air Charity Network to make life - saving connections b etween supporting volunteer pilots and serving people in need.  Disaster response . . . After 9/11, volunteer pilots were called upon to transport American Red Cross pers onnel, booties for the rescue dogs, and many other people and supplies. In the midst of response to Hurricane Katrina, over 2,500 missions were flown through Air Charity Network to reunite families separated during the evacuation of flood - ravaged areas and to relocate families out of shelters to safe housing elsewhere. When requesting a flight, mission coordinators work diligentl y to successfully find a volunteer pilot or identify

another appropriate transportation resource. M an y ACN member organizations have special volunteers who are "on - call" for last minute transplant, blood and special circumstance flights .