About FunFlight
FunFlight is a not-for-profit volunteer organisation that offers children and teenagers touched by a life changing illness or other adversity, a day of aviation based entertainment, together with their families.
If you would like to donate to FunFlight, please click HERE.
National FunFlight Day 2011
The National FunFlight Day 2011, held on 13 November was a huge success. Aero Clubs in Adelaide, Canberra, Tyabb, Traralgon, Horsham, Lilydale, Moorrabbin, Bendigo, Townsville, Newcastle, Amberley, Echuca and Bankstown participated. Over 1200 passengers were given the opportunity to go up in the sky, and have a day away from their normal worries.
The organisation of the 2012 National FunFlight Day is in full swing.
FunFlight event in Canberra
Of course, this would not have happened without the support and the many hours of work that the local aero clubs and their volunteers put in. Thank you VERY MUCH guys!
Below is a video of last year's event in Adelaide, at Goolwa Airport:
Local Events
In partnership with aero clubs from around the country, we organise joyflights and other aviation related activities. Every second Sunday in November is the National FunFlight Day. In the last four years, over 4000 children and their families were given the 'Flight of their Life', from airports around Australia. If you represent an aero club, and would like to organise a local FunFlight event, please contact us HERE
Passengers
The joy flight passengers come other charities; we have provided joy flights for members of organisations such as the Starlight Foundation, Canteen, Ronald McDonald House, HeartKids, Camp Quality, Uniting Care, Special Schools, etcetera. If you represent a charity and would like to participate in a FunFlight event, please contact us HERE.
Sponsors & Donations
FunFlight is able to do this work because many volunteers and sponsors offer their services, goods, time, money and aircraft. Flying is expensive, and for us to be able to keep on putting smiles on the faces of kids and families that so often have little to smile about, we require more sponsors and more donations. You can donate HERE, and contact us if you would like to discuss what difference your company's sponsorship would make to these kids.
Our family would like to send enormous thanks to everyone involved last Sunday in the Funflight activities at the Peninsula Aero Club. We had the most fantastic day and our Heartkid William had a huge smile on his face the whole day. As a large family with four sons we needed two planes. Our pilots Tom and Bruce were so lovely and the boys thought they were fantastic!! The food, activities and air show were all fantastic and the gentleman who brought icypoles over to the petting farm was a lifesaver in the hot weather!!! William has had two major heart operations and many other procedures for a complex heart condition he was born with. He will also have further open heart surgeries as he grows - which he is just starting to become aware of and although he does not want to go back into hospital, these days are a fantastic way for him to forget about it and just enjoy a great day out.
Photos are available HERE
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FunFlight & Andrew Gaze
On 8 May, the Channel 7 program 'The Guide to the Good Life' filmed a segment for the show at the Peninsula Aero Club at Tyabb. The show aired on 12 May. We had invited 40 passengers from HeartKids, and the volunteer pilots from the PAC took them up, and showed them Phillip Island, Western Port Bay, the Mornington Peninsula and Port Phillip Bay from the air. Andrew Gaze, the program presenter, interviewed a couple of families and FunFlight volunteers.
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What's Next?
From our humble beginnings in 2007, where we flew 130 kids and their families from Tyabb Aiport in Melbourne, FunFlight has now flown over 4000 passengers! This has not been without little bumps on the road, and the most important thing that we are working on in the next six months is professionalising our organisation. FunFlight completely relies on volunteers, and a determined group within the organising committee has taken on this job. Watch this space I would say!
We will do a big fundraising push, to ensure that we can keep doing what we are doing for many years to come. We are looking at doing more smaller events during the year, as well as individual FunFlights for families that can do with that extra support.
And then we are discussing bringing FunFlight overseas! We have had interest from a few clubs in other countries to participate in FunFlight, which is very exciting. FunFlight Australia will not be organising these overseas events, or finance them, but we will give our support to the local organisations that want to set up FunFlight there. FunFlight Smiles Around The World!
