Corporate Angel Network Hits Milestone Patient Flight

This week Corporate Angel Network (CAN), the charity that uses available seats on business aircraft flights to transport cancer victims to treatment, flew its 49,000th and 49,001st patients since it was launched in 1981. The flight on Tuesday was operated by Dow Chemical, one of the first companies to offer its flights to CAN, and carried 54-year-old Richard Gremillion Jr. and his 74-year-old father—both prostate cancer patients—from Baton Rouge to Houston, where they are receiving treatment.

“Dow’s partnership with CAN allows us to make a real difference for thousands of people, often a lifesaving difference,” said Rob Valentine, director of global citizenship and president of the Dow Chemical Foundation. “Dow people are driven to help build stronger, more sustainable communities, and this is one of the most important ways we are able to do that.”

At the Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition next month in Las Vegas, NBAA will raise money to benefit CAN at the annual Soiree Reception and Silent Auction. The event starts at 6 p.m. on November 18 at the Las Vegas Venetian Hotel and features both silent and live auctions, as well as a private concert by cover band The Zippers. Auction items include a Flight Research two-day pilot upset-recovery training course; a Gogo ATG 1000; a FlightSafety initial type rating course; a $1,000 Avfuel card; and Breitling and Hamilton watches.