Flight Sponsorship

The cost to conduct on Honor Flight Network (HFN) trip out of Ohio (Cleveland, Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati) is $10,000. This is the HFN cost associated with transporting about 40 WWII Veterans, round trip airfare, meals, 56 passenger deluxe motor coach in the Washington DC area, tee/sweat shirts for the veterans, insurance, etc. The guardians pay their own way. The costs associated with flights originating in other states varies based upon airfare costs and if overnight lodging is required. The cost for charting an entire aircraft (from Air Bus 320 to Boeing 747) varies from state to state and charter carrier. If you would like to sponsor a commercial or charter flight, please contact the Founder of Honor Flight, Earl Morse at founder@honorflight.org.

1) Membership of the organization can be at the flight send off and will be recognized to the veterans and the press in attendance.

2) Two (2) members of the organization can go on the flight as guardians for free.

3) The organization is able to provide literature about their organization, which will be included in the care packages given to the veterans at the beginning of the flight.

5) The organization will be included in all advertising and publicity of the sponsored flight and will be included on Honor Flight's International Website.

For more information on sponsoring a flight, please contact our offices at 937-521-2400 or by e-mail at donations@honorflight.org.

The following organizations and individuals have graciously sponsored the indicated flights.

BILL AND SANDY GUNLOCK - Sponsoring the Dayton, Ohio, November 15, 2008 Flight

GEORGEHEAD FAMILY FUND - Sponsoring the Honor Flight Bluegrass, October 8, 2008 Flight

GREENER PASTURE FOUNDATION: RANDY AND VICKI GUNLCOK - Sponsoring the Dayton, Ohio, October 4, 2008 Flight

VFW 1031 Ride for Honor Flight - Sponsoring the Dayton, Ohio, September 20, 2008 Flight.

The VFW is an American organization whose members are current or former members of the US Armed Forces. They work on behalf of American veterans by lobbying Congress for better veterans' health care and benefits. They also assist veterans with their VA disability claims. The VFW also donates time and money for community service.

Veterans of Foreign Wars - Sponsoring the Honor Flight Bluegrass, September 10, 2008 Flight.

Fraternal Order of Eagles, Lebanon, Ohio - Sponsoring the Dayton, Ohio, September 6, 2008 Flight

The Eagles are an International fraternal organization whose mission is "to make human life more desirable by lessening its ills, and by promoting peace, prosperity, gladness and hope". Sponsoring the July flight is in honor of the 101st birthday of the Aerie.

Rotary Club of Dayton, OH - Sponsoring the Dayton, Ohio August 16, 2008 Flight

Ohio AT&T Telecom Pioneers - Sponsoring the Columbus, Ohio, July 12, 2008 Flight

Hastings Middle School, Upper Arlington, OH - Sponsoring the Columbus, Ohio, May 3, 2008 - Flight.

Eighth graders in House A at Hastings Middle School <http://school.uaschools.org/hastings/> in Upper Arlington, Ohio appreciate the sacrifices and service of all veterans, but are especially grateful to World War II veterans. The annual Veterans Day program allows students the chance to honor veterans and then meet with them in small groups to hear stories and ask questions. This living history opportunity helped students focus their efforts on raising funds to send WWII veterans to Washington, D.C. on Honor Flight.

The Hastings Boys Golf Team hosted the first annual "Par-a-thon" and raised more than $4600 for making putts and birdies, setting the bar for other students!

Many students responded to a challenge for each House 8A classmate to donate $20; some students went far beyond that target. Friends worked together to rake leaves and bake treats to sell, and raised $560. Individual students contributed money from allowances and from babysitting, shoveling sidewalks, and walking dogs. The 8^th grade Boys Basketball Team had a father-son competition, raising $600.

One student donated a pair of OSU/Wisconsin football tickets for a raffle; the winner returned the tickets to be resold, bringing in even more money!

As a class project, students staged “The Wave Café”, serving breakfast to the school community on 4 days before school. The crew arrived daily at school at 6:15 a.m. (a real sacrifice for 8^th graders!) to set tables, flip pancakes, wait tables, and wash dishes. Many Hastings students, teachers and families paid to eat breakfast at 7 or 7:30 a.m. The Café raised a considerable amount of money and publicity surrounding the event encouraged community citizens to donate.

Students also wrote letters to veterans that will be put into the packet given to the veterans at the end of the trip, and also prepared breakfast bags, and will come to the airport to send off or greet the Honor Flight veterans.

Noland Health Services - Sponsoring the Birmingham, Alabama Inaugural, April 30, 2008 Flight.

Bible Baptist Church out of Wilmington, OH - Sponsoring the Columbus, Ohio, April 19, 2008 Flight

Veterans of Foreign Wars - Sponsored the Cleveland, Ohio, May 23, 2007 Flight.

American Legion Post 144 - Sponsored the Columbus, Ohio, November 3, 2007 Flight

The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, war-time veterans organization. A community-service organization which now numbers nearly 3 million members -- men and women -- in nearly 15,000 American Legion Posts worldwide. These Posts are organized into 55 Departments -- one each for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, and the Philippines. It is fitting that they sponsor one of our "Veteran's Day" trips.