Operation Airdrop

Effort included hoist and emergency aviation assets and a C-17 delivering more than 100,000 pounds of FEMA supplies.

Operation Airdrop is organizing supply flights for hard-hit Tennessee and North Carolina communities.

We’ve all seen the reports of the devastation that’s being caused by Hurricane Ida. Homes are devastated, hundreds of thousands are without power, and worse. As so often happens during these types of disasters, members of the aviation community have already started to pitch in or stand by at the ready, doing whatever they can […]

The scene is brutal: Miles of devastated houses, beaches, and businesses on the main island of Abaco in the Bahamas. Waves lash over the flooded runway at Marsh Harbour airport, clearly closing off the normal means by which people travel here from across the ocean. No ferries, even. Hurricane Dorian churned its way through these […]