The Pilot Behind the Mission

About Justin McShane

Volunteer Pilot • Angel Flight East • Wings for Hope

Justin McShane — volunteer pilot in the cockpit
✈ Certified Pilot ❤ Angel Flight East 🆕 Content Creator

A Pilot Who Gives Every Flight a Purpose

Justin McShane is a passionate private pilot with a simple but powerful belief: aviation should serve humanity. When he's not in the cockpit, he's building an online community through his social media channels and Substack — and every dollar those platforms generate goes directly into making the next compassion flight possible.

As a volunteer pilot with Angel Flight East and similar humanitarian aviation organizations, Justin donates his time, skills, and now his entire content monetization to cover the real costs of flying patients — many of them cancer patients — to and from life-saving medical treatment facilities they could never afford to reach otherwise.

"I became a pilot because I love to fly," Justin says. "But the moment I made my first Angel Flight East mission and saw the relief on a patient's face, I realized this was what the plane — and everything I do — is really for."

The Full-Circle Mission

Justin runs two YouTube channels, an active Instagram and Facebook presence, and writes regularly on Substack. Rather than keeping those proceeds, he routes 100% of net earnings into funding his volunteer missions — paying for avgas, aircraft operating costs, and coordination fees so that every patient flies completely free.

100% of proceeds donated
flights in progress
$0 cost to patients

Follow the Mission

Follow Justin's flights and stories on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube — every like, view and subscription literally lifts a patient into the air.