NBAA/CAN Charity Benefit
About Corporate Angel Network
Corporate Angel Network (CAN) is the only charitable organization in the USA whose sole mission is to ease the emotional stress, physical discomfort and financial burden of travel for cancer patients by arranging free flights to treatment centers, using the empty seats on corporate aircraft flying on routine business.
Based in White Plains, NY, Corporate Angel Network occupies an office donated by the Westchester County Airport. 50 part-time volunteers and five paid staff work with patients, physicians, corporations, flight departments and leading treatment facilities to arrange 2,500 flights a year.
At a September 10, 2009, ceremony on Capitol Hill, CAN was presenteaccepts the "Outstanding Achievement in Public Benefit Flying" award, issued by the National Aeronautic Association and the Air Care Alliance. The award recognized CAN's role in helping cancer patients connect with business aircraft operators for transport to treatment centers across the country. NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen, who attended the event, noted: "This award is fitting tribute for an organization that effectively partners with the business aviation community to help so many people in need each year."
View video of the presentation ceremony with Peter Fleiss, CAN Executive Director
NBAA Flight Plan Podcast: Humanitarian Flights in a Turbulent Economy
Peter Fleiss, executive director of Corporate Angel Network (CAN), discusses the humanitarian flights his organization manages in the latest episode of NBAA’s Flight Plan podcast. Fleiss talks about how the economy has affected the mercy flights CAN organizes to connect cancer patients with business aircraft operators for transportation to treatment centers across the country. CAN will be the recipient of funds raised at the NBAA/CAN Charity Benefit, held during the 62nd Annual Meeting & Convention in Orlando, FL, next week. Listen now.
To learn more about how your flight department can become a "Corporate Angel," visit www.corpangelnetwork.org.
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