Mediacom Announces Honor Flight Broadcast Date

Mediacom will air the trip that Honor Flight of Greater Dubuque made to Washington, D.C. on Wed., July 21st, at 7pm, on channel 22.

Honor Flight Number 2 is on October 19, 2010

Get your applications in for the second Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.

2nd Honor Flight of Greater Dubuque
Request for Applications

 The second Honor Flight is being considered for sometime this fall. In order to gauge the level of World War II veterans interest , we need to have your applications submitted. Please, let us know if you have a desire to go to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Click here for a photo gallery!

The following photos were taken May 18, 2010 at about noon.

 Inaugural Honor Flight Leaves Dubuque

For Washington, DC on May 18, 2010

The departing date at the Dubuque Regional Airport was on May 18, 2010, at approximately 7:15 am, and they all arrived back at the Dubuque Regional Airport at approximately 10:30pm.

Please, check back to this site for more details
as they are annouced for a potential second flight.

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Dubuque Named New Hub City For Honor Flight
The Future of Honor Flight… Help Us Meet Our Goal

There is now a network of participating programs in place to assist our senior heroes. Resources are pooled, experience is shared and alliances are formed throughout America to get World War II veterans to their precious memorial safely.

Honor Flight Network has established an aggressive goal for 2009 — we want to transport 25,000 veterans from across the United States to the World War II Memorial. The program presently has 71 hubs in 30 states. By the end of 2009, Honor Flight Network hopes to have a hub in all 50 states. Due to the senior age of our heroes, and the prediction that we are losing approximately 1,000 of them daily, we are committed to do all within our power to make their dream a reality. Our current focus will remain on World War II veterans and those veterans from any war who have a terminal illness. However, our vision goes beyond World War II.

 The History of Honor Flight

The inaugural Honor Flight took place in May of 2005. Six small planes flew out of Springfield, Ohio taking twelve World War II veterans on a visit to the memorial in Washington, DC. In August of 2005, an ever-expanding waiting list of veterans led our transition to commercial airline carriers with the goal of accommodating as many veterans as possible. Partnering with HonorAir in Hendersonville, North Carolina, we formed the "Honor Flight Network." Today, we continue working aggressively to expand our programs to other cities across the nation.

For more information about Honor Flight, please, go to: www.honorflight.org.

The material on this site was provided by the Honor Flight Organization.