1,000 Veterans Have Made an Honor Flight Rochester Trip >> Honor Flight Rochester’s first veteran will welcome them home >> 150th anniversary commemoration of Taps at Arlington National Cemetery ROCHESTER, NY – When Honor Flight Rochester’s Mission 22 lifts off Saturday morning May 19 onboard will be the 1,000th veteran to make an Honor Flight…

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More than 200 WWII Veterans and Guardians, who have flown on Rochester Honor Flights, gathered to celebrate the organization’s First Year success at Legacy Clover Blossom tonight. Emotions and energy ran high as travelers reunited from the three Honor Flights to date funded entirely by private community donations. The perfect sunset evening on the Legacy’s…

Airport Reception Slated for 55 WWII Veterans & their Guardians Rochester, New York. The “Honor Flight,” which first formed in Rochester in 2008, lifts off its first whole airplane this weekend, flying 55 area WWII Veterans to visit the Memorial built in their honor on the Mall in Washington DC. Flying out early Saturday morning,…

Contact: Vince Hope, Vice President
Honor Flight Rochester, Inc.
[email protected]

WROC TV-8 Documentary to Air this Veteran’s Day

Rochester, New York. In the dark of a 5:30 morning in mid-October, ten men assembled outside the security glass at the Greater Rochester International Airport. A few were in wheelchairs; all showed the pace

Contact: Vince Hope, Vice President
Honor Flight Rochester, Inc.
[email protected]

WWII Veterans to Visit their Memorial in Washington D.C.

Rochester, New York. In twelve short weeks dreams have become reality. On Memorial Day 2008 a public appeal was first heard for Rochester to

Contact: Vince Hope, Vice President
Honor Flight Rochester, Inc.
[email protected]

Veterans’ Welcome Home Celebration Set for June 22

Rochester, New York. Honor Flight, the private not-for-profit organization dedicated to flying WWII veterans to visit their memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. announces