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The Wheels Up Orange Plane is a flying symbol to raise\nawareness for food insecurity and in honor of Feeding America and the frontline\nworkers at the 200 member food banks across the nation and, like all Wheels Up\nCares aircraft, will be a permanent part of the Wheels Up fleet. The plane\nrepresents continued dedication from the Wheels Up team to combatting hunger in\nAmerica as more than 50 million people could face hunger in the wake of the\nCOVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In recognition of Hunger Action Month, tonight the control\ntowers at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and the pylons at LAX will light up\norange to help bring attention to the issue of hunger, taking note of the\nextenuating circumstances food banks are facing because of the COVID-19\npandemic. Apparel brand Sportiqe has also joined the cause and donated 50,000\nmeals to take action against hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We kicked off the Meals Up initiative back in March\nwith one purpose \u2013 to help feed people \u2013 and we knew then that the next Wheels\nUp Cares plane would be orange in support of fighting food insecurity and to\nraise awareness for Feeding America’s Hunger Action Month,” said Kenny\nDichter, Founder and CEO of Wheels Up. “We are grateful to Ron Draper and\nTextron Aviation for once again donating the design and livery of the Orange\nPlane to shine a light on this important cause. We are excited that Textron\nAviation has joined the Meals Up movement and we are energized by their\ngenerous donation of 500,000 meals.” \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Wheels Up has been a steadfast partner to Feeding\nAmerica. We thank them for their continued contributions and for helping us\nrally the nation to end hunger in our communities,” said Claire\nBabineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America. “Hunger Action Month is just\nthat \u2013 a time for us all to act \u2013 and provide meals for the millions of\nAmericans who need our help, especially during these unprecedented times.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Textron Aviation is honored to be partnering with\nKenny Dichter and Wheels Up, once again, in their Wheels Up Cares\ninitiative,” said Ron Draper, President & CEO of Textron Aviation.\n“Now more than ever, it is imperative that we come together to support the\nmany people affected by this pandemic. In addition to the donation of the paint\nto the aircraft, we are proud to be providing a monetary gift to the Meals Up\neffort, which will provide more than 500,000 meals to feed members of our\ncommunities across the nation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Along with the Orange Plane to honor Feeding America, Wheels\nUp Cares includes one-of-a-kind Beechcraft King Air 350i aircraft recognizing\nthe following causes: the Camouflage Plane for the Tragedy Assistance Program\nfor Survivors, the Red Plane for the American Heart Association and Simon’s\nHeart, the Teal Plane for Ovarian Cancer Awareness, and the Pink Plane for\nBreast Cancer Awareness and the Dubin Breast Center of the Tisch Cancer\nInstitute at Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*$1 helps provide at least 10 meals secured by Feeding\nAmerica on behalf of member food banks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today Wheels Up unveiled its first-ever orange Beechcraft King Air 350i aircraft in partnership with Textron Aviation in honor of Feeding America’s Hunger Action Month this September. The Orange Plane is part of the ongoing Wheels Up Cares and Meals Up initiatives. Meals Up was created in March 2020 to help support the growing levels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wheels-UP-orangeredit-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16416,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413\/revisions\/16416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}