Special Event: “Dog Is My Copilot” Rescue Flyway – Pilots N Paws “Dog Is My Copilot” Rescue Flyway – September 28-29, 2012
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The weekend of September 28-29th Pilots N Paws will be holding its fourth annual awareness event, the “Dog Is My Copilot” Flyway, at the Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport (KEQY). Several pilots will fly in to KEQY Friday evening to prepare for Saturday morning’s mass transport of hopefully 200 or more animals out of this North Carolina base to rescues that can find forever homes for them. Early Saturday morning pilots will begin loading their planes with rescue animals from shelters and transporting them via relays to participating rescues that have the capabilities to find them forever homes.
Dog is My CoPilot Book by Patrick Regan
The “Dog Is My Copilot” Flyway derived its name from the Pilots N Paws book by Patrick Regan that chronicles two dozen PNP rescue missions and was just released in June. The event is expected to be the largest one-day annual event in the history of Pilots N Paws. In 2011, pilots transported 174 dogs and 1 kitten out of Florence, SC in memory of the Chesterfield 22. After the BP oil spill in 2010, they flew 171 animals out of New Orleans. This year they expect to supersede their record of animals flown in one weekend.
Please support Pilots N Paws in this life changing event! Donations are greatly appreciated and can be made at: http://pilotsnpaws.org/donate/
“Pilots N Paws is a 501c3 charitable organization of general aviation pilots working together with rescue volunteers and shelters. Together they save the lives of innocent animals by moving them from overcrowded areas, escaping euthanasia, to areas where adoptive homes can be found.”
Hundreds of Dogs Being Flown To Virginia – Associated Press – The Sacramento Bee
WEST POINT, Va. — More than 125 dogs are being flown from a North Carolina airport to Virginia to save the animals from kill shelters. Officials with the PilotsNPaws program say more than 80 pilots are participating in the single-day airlift of more than 300 dogs on Saturday.
The dogs are being flown from the Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport in Monroe, N.C. to seven states, including Virginia.
About 100 of the dogs are set to be flown to Middle Peninsula Regional Airport in West Point, with others going to Warrenton and Manassas. Once the pets arrive, volunteers from participating no-kill shelters will be waiting to find them homes.
PilotsNPaws flies about 2,400 missions a year transporting about 12,000 animals.
