Children's Flight of Hope provides qualified pilots with the opportunity to combine their love of flying with critical community service.

We operate and maintain our own aircraft, a fixed-wing, twin-engine Cessna 414 that seats six people. The aircraft is housed at Sanford Regional Airport. We can serve destinations within 600 miles of the airport but require that our missions either originate or end within 200 miles of Raleigh, NC.

Each CFH flight is staffed with two pilots. No other organization requires this. We believe this differentiating factor increases our ability to provide the safest service possible while providing additional comfort to the families that we fly.

The requirements our volunteer pilots must meet are more stringent than those required by most volunteer pilot organizations. The Pilot in Command on each flight must have completed:

  2,000 total flight hours

  500 hours of flight time in a multi-engine aircraft

  50 hours of flight time in the type of aircraft we own (a Cessna 414)

  10 hours of flight time within the last 180 days

Each Pilot in Command must also attend recurrent training (paid for by CFH) each year with a national flight training organization. Our co-pilots must be multi-engine instrument-rated and current.

If you are a pilot and are interested in helping sick children in need in our region, please contact us!