5144 Lisch Drive
Whitmore Lake MI, 48189-9774
810-599-8765, info@kidswings.org
What We Do
“Kid’s Wings provides free air transportation to those in financial need and in medical need of treatment at distant facilities and for whom commercial air transportation is either unaffordable or impractical."
Transplant Flight, July 24, 2008 2010-06-11 20:55:28
An 8 month old infant needs to go from SE Michigan to Pittsburgh for a liver/pancreas/intestine transplant. He had never eaten in his life and was on a life support pack. Flights are planned in advance with pertinent information provided by the mission coordinator to the client and the pilot. On July 24, 2008 I was contacted at 5:50 a.m. by the Angel Flight transplant coordinator and informed that the patient was "activated", i.e. there was a match and he had 6 hours to be in the hospital from the initial contact time made by the hospital transplant coordinator, about 5 ......
A Compassion Flight 2009-10-28 12:08:45
A compassion flight and what it meant.
Dick Lawrence, Kid’s Wings.
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April 25, 2006 was a stormy April day with a frontal system from Michigan to New York. One pilot had cancelled the previous day and I was asked by Angel Flight if I could help Mary and her thirteen-year-old daughter, Kathryn, return home from Saginaw, MI to West Barnett, VT. I would do the first leg, meeting them at the Midland-Bay City- Saginaw Airport, “MBS”, taking them to ......