The tradition continues! We will welcome home our veterans and guardians from Flight #59 to Washington D.C.
The day begins early for everyone — flight takes off around 7 a.m. CST and arrives back in the Quad Cities around 10 p.m. Flight arrival in QC varies.
The first flight of 2024 is April 23, 2024.
Hope to see you at the airport!
The Honor Flight board, the hundreds of volunteers, and the thousands of Veterans who have been on an Honor Flight, all extend to the family and many, many friends of Linda Spring our deepest sympathy and prayers at her passing.
Her support, encouragement, and hours of work helped our Honor Flight touch the lives of so many Veterans. To many of us she became a dear friend and to all of us she was a source of inspiration. We understand the grief so many feel, but we rejoice that all of us have so many wonderful memories of Linda. Be sure to know that our prayers are with her family and those who loved her.
2024 Honor Flights have been confirmed!
#59 April 23, 2024
#60 September 17, 2024
#61 October 29, 2024
JUST ANNOUNCED!!!. The Hauberg Estate will again have a limited amount of Iron Garden Sculptures at this year’s Hauberg Estate Native Plant Sale. May 13th & 14th, 2023. 1300-24th Street, Rock Island, Il.
These sculptures were created by the late Don Hale a Warren County Artist. Don was a veteran of the Korean War and had been on an Honor Flight. Don became a big supporter of the Honor Flight of the Quad Cities program. To honor Don, and all our veterans, 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the sculptures will be given to the Honor Flight of the Quad Cities.
Over the past 2 Plant Sales, proceeds from Don’s sculptures sales have resulted in $3,000 being donated.
These are the last of Don’s sculptures, his barn studio is empty. So come over next weekend, buy native plants and support the Honor Flight of the Quad Cities.
Honor Flight #56 takes off Tuesday, April 4th and returns to the Quad Cities via Sun Country Flight #8664. The flight is scheduled to leave D.C. at 8:50 p.m. EDT.
Track the flight coming home using the Flight Aware website: https://flightaware.com/
Enter SC8664 in the flight number field. Or you can search by route entering the origin and destination of the flight.
Come out to the airport in Moline to welcome our Veterans home!
Honor Flight Spring Dates are confirmed.
Thank you to Knights of Columbus for hosting a trivia night to benefit the Honor Flight of the Quad Cities! The funds received will help us send more Quad City Veterans to visit the war memorials in Washington, D.C.
Thanks so much Harcros Chemicals, Inc. for helping us send more Veterans on our Honor Flights to Washington DC. They presented a $5,000 check to Honor Flight Board members on Friday, October 21.
I went on the Honor Flight on October 4th and it will remain in my mind as the most unforgettable experience of my life.
I would like to give a heartfelt shout-out to the guardians because they are so helpful, cheerful and make veterans feel special.
I particularly enjoyed the opportunity to talk with other veterans because trying to explain our experience to a civilian of our time in uniform is very difficult, if not impossible for them to understand. Veterans all have a common time to talk about if nothing more than our basic training and the NCO’s and officers that we were assigned to.
All in all, Honor Flight has done an incredible job for this all-expense paid trip to Washinton to honor veterans. I never would have been able to imagine the outpouring of thanks and honor that was shown us by hundreds of people, including children, at the airports and everywhere we went.
When I got out of the army, I thought that the VFW or Legion was all there was.
THANKS TO EVERYONE IN THE HONOR FLIGHT PROGRAM THAT WORKED SO HARD TO HONOR VETS IN SUCH AN AMAZING WAY!!
Honor Flight #54 is dedicated to Art Petersen, Korean Veteran, and dedicated Honor Flight board member. Art’s son, Greg, is on the trip and is pictured here in front of the Korean Memorial with his dad’s flag.
With a passion for service to fellow veterans, Art volunteered over 1, 000 hours each year to the success of Honor Flight of the Quad Cities.
Art passed away on February 22, 2021.
