Cloud Nine Rescue Flights

As you may recall, Cloud Nine was forced to suspend all operations in the summer of 2011 due to the failure of some critical avionics in Sugar Pop, our Cessna 310.

Sugar Pop’s Avionics Failure

With the help of a multiple contributors, we were able to return this aircraft to the sky and resume operations in the fall of 2011. We opted to replace the old Collins Flight Director and Horizontal Situation Indicator with a modern Aspen Avionics EFD1000Pro. This new piece of equipment is state-of-the-art, and is a tremendous improvement to Cloud Nine’s ability to operate Sugar Pop safely in all sorts of weather conditions. We would like to give special thanks to several organizations, without which we would have been unable to complete the repairs:

The ASPCA provided a generous grant, which paid for more than half of the total cost of the installation. Thank you, ASPCA!

Aspen Avionics generously provided a discount on the EFD1000Pro, thus reducing the cost of our purchase and installation.

Twin Lake Avionics generously discounted the installation work, making the installation more affordable for Cloud Nine.

We also had a number of other individual donors, many of whom wished to remain anonymous. We would like to thank all those who helped us get our aircraft back in the sky!

<p>New Aspen EFD1000Pro!</p>

Since Sugar Pop’s return to service in September 2011, it has transported 62 homeless pets to safety! We look forward to years to come of saving more homeless pets with this aircraft!

Blue Skies,

-Ted