Lets Take The Kids Flying In BETSY the DC3 Over Auckland City

Uplift In Kind our Kids Flying Programme loves working with New Zealand's amazingly compassionate Family Support Agencies:

Make A Wish

Heart Kids NZ

Pillars

Canteen

Child Cancer Foundation

We feel privileged to be able to bring our Family Support Agencies complimentary scenic flights all over New Zealand. Only made possible by the generosity of our network of volunteer commercial pilots and fantastic aviation partner operators all over the country. Our agencies love this programme as it allows them to offer an awesome outing for their unwell or underprivileged children and their families. We're often on board these flights and to say it is heart felt is an understatement. For these families it is usually a really big deal and they are often overwhelmed with emotion and happiness during and after their flight. We truly believe it gives them renewed inspiration during whatever hardship they happen to be facing and it also gives them as a family, life long cherished memories.

We came up with an idea that would get all of our agencies and their families together for one big, fun aviation day out.

We said "Let's take a nostalgic trip down memory lane" and see if we can get the guys at Fly DC3 to take our kids and their families for a world class scenic flight over the City of Sails in the elegant and eye catching Douglas DC3.

The good folk at Fly DC3 have promised that if we all get together at Ardmore Airport on a lovely sunny weekend that they will take care of the rest. They also reassured us that no one will leave disappointed. Turns out - thats just how it is over there at their place!

"Wow - we're in" the agencies said and they reckon the kids and their families are gonna be shell shocked. Family fun times are cherished so they'll take no convincing.

This is such an awesome cause. We get to take the kids and their families out for an amazing flight but it also turns out that Covid 19 has taken its toll on the DC3 operation so we reckon seeing as she'll take good care of our kids that in essence we're also giving back to BETSY.

Supporting our Scenic Flight outing offers a lovely distraction for our Kids and their families. It helps support five of New Zealand's compassionate Family Support Agencies and it'll help our beloved BETSY keep rumbling on over our skies.