Isle-Fly take to the skies for Helping Wings Day

Isle-Fly, the private air charter solution operating under locally-owned Jersey Jet Centre Ltd, recently hosted 12 children and young adults on-board its Cessna 406 aircraft at Helping Wings Day 2017.

Helping Wings is a Jersey charity, whose aim is to enable the disadvantaged and disabled of all ages share the exhilaration and fulfilment of flying. Since 2008 with the support of their members, partners and pilots, nearly 1000 children, their families and carers have enjoyed a day out at the Aero Club.

This year’s Helping Wings Day gave 97 children, young adults, their parents and carers, the opportunity to fly round the island, as well as the chance to be entertained on the ground by displays from the Jersey Airport firefighters, the Jersey Police dog handlers and local children’s magician, Chicano.

Helping Wing’s patron, H.E. Sir Stephen Dalton, accompanied by Lady Dalton, their daughter Elizabeth and Air Commodore Dawn McCafferty, paid a visit to the Aero Club and stayed for two hours to talk to the families, children and Helping Wings volunteers. Elizabeth was also one of the six passengers who took part in the morning session, and enjoyed her time up in the air with her fellow passengers and the Isle-Fly pilots.

Colin Wright, Director at Isle-Fly, commented: “The Isle-Fly team were absolutely delighted to be asked to take part in Helping Wings Day and thoroughly enjoyed taking the 12 young passengers on a tour round the island in one of our aircraft. It’s fantastic to see such interest from the younger generations in aviation and we hope to support Helping Wings charity again at next year’s 10^th anniversary event by giving even more enthusiastic young people, who wouldn’t ordinarily have the opportunity to fly in a light aircraft, the chance to take off into the Jersey skies.”

Eveline Hawkin from Helping Wings said: “We were both delighted and extremely grateful that Isle-Fly participated in our Helping Wings Day. With their support, Helping Wings was able to offer more of our disadvantaged and disabled youngsters the chance to fly and we look forward to working together again.”

Isle-Fly's aircraft joined a fleet of smaller aircraft that made Helping Wings Day possible.