About Us

The Central and Western Iowa Honor Flight and all other flights throughout the country allow our WWII and Korean War hero's to travel to Washington, DC to view the monuments and other monuments at no cost to our veterans.  This is an opportunity for our veterans, many who have never been able to travel to Washington, DC to view a memorial for the service and the ultimate sacrifice  our Veterans did to protect our country.  The Honor Flight Networks believes it's important that the Veterans get to visit and experience their memorial. We need to continue this great opportunity for our Veterans as we are losing approximately 1,000 Veterans a day. We want to give something back to them and show how much we appreciate all they did for us.

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Media Coverage

KCCI - Des Moines, Iowa - May 6th, 2014 "Polk County Paying $125k to fund new Honor Flight"
KCCI - Des Moines, Iowa - October 13th, 209 "Tour Memorial With Honor Flight Veterans"
WHOTV - Des Moines, Iowa - October 13th, 2009 "Honor Flight: Supporters send Veterans off in Style"
KCCI - Des Moines, Iowa - September 21st, 2009 "Hy-Vee to Send 350 More Veterans to DC"
KCCI - Des Moines, Iowa - August 25th, 2009 "Casey's to Send 350 Veterans on Honor Flight" | Watch
KCCI - Des Moines, Iowa - August 11th, 2009 "Day in Washington" | Watch | Watch
WHOTV - Des Moines, Iowa - August 11th, 2009 "Big Crowd Sends Off Veterans"
KCCI - Des Moines, Iowa - August 10th, 2009 "350 Iowa WWII Vets Prepare For Honor Flight"
KCCI - Des Moines, Iowa - August 5th, 2009 "Honor Flight Info" | Watch
KCCI - Des Moines, Iowa - July 23rd, 2009 "Johnston Veterans Count Down to Honor Flight "
KCCI - Des Moines, Iowa - June 18th, 2009 "Hy-Vee Gift Send 400 on Honor Flight" | Watch
KCCI - Des Moines, Iowa - May 15th, 2009 "Western Iowa Honor Flight"
News Radio 1040 WHO - Michelson Radio Show - June 3rd, 2009 (Listen)

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Committee Members

Jeff Ballenger jeff01@cox.net
John Forbes forbes_john@msn.com
Duane Gibson
Arvid Huisman arvid_huisman@usc.salvationarmy.org
Shar Pardubsky shpardubsky@gmail.com
Vicki Vermaat vvermaat@orangecitycomm.net