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.
Organisational Update
Janna Hilbrink, Secretary for FunFlight for a number of years, has recently handed in her resignation. Janna has been instrumental in working closely with our Charity Organisations to drive their involvement in our FunFlight days, as well as being a cornerstone in our committee as Secretary. It is through Janna's dedication and professionalism that we have been able to build the platform that we have. Janna is involved in many charity acitivities, and will be spending her time focusing on these other groups.
Janna, on behalf of both the FunFlight Management Groups, the Charities, the Pilots and AeroClubbs, but most importantly the thousands on smiling kids whose lives you have touched, THANK YOU.
FunFlight Day 2013 - Watts Bridge Memorial, Brisbane
Watts Bridge in a new Club that FunFlight has been working closely with, but were unable to get across the line for the FunFlight National Day in 2012. Watts Bridge Memorial are holding a fly in day in May, we have been able to work with them and with HeartKids in the area to get 40 passengers lined up. Watch this space for an update and photos!
National FunFlight Day 2013
Preparations are underway for our 2013 Event, please watch this space for confirmed details.
If you are interested in being involved, please use our contact form.
National FunFlight Day 2012
The went ahead, and was a huge success. 1400 passengers across 14 Aero Clubs were treated to a day of avaition joy, and a large number of smiling, chuffed pilots were involved.
We will get this page updated with photos and reports shortly.
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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!
