50,000 Cancer Patients Have Felt The Love

There are a lot of things in aviation that make us all feel a bright spark, and one of the brightest is the work of Corporate Angel Network, which recently arranged the 50,000th flight for a cancer patient in need of treatment somewhere far from home. It's an amazing story.

Departing from the Meridian FBO at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, a Bombardier Challenger 300 owned by NCR took off for the company's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Onboard, along with NCR executives, were the Yerby family, one-year-old cancer patient Baron, and his parents Casey and Jonathan. The Yerbys were heading home to Atlanta after Baron had received treatment in New York City. Baron was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer, at three months of age, and has been undergoing treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

This milestone flight was Corporate Angel Network's 50,000th cancer patient flight since its founding 35 years ago. The organization arranges free transportation to treatment for cancer patients using seats donated on corporate aircraft. With the participation of more than 500 major corporations, a staff of 6 and 30 volunteers, CAN averages 225 patient flights each month to cancer treatment centers.

Learn more about the work of Corporate Angel Network at corpangelnetwork.org.

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