Sustainability and Environment
Sea Turtle Rescue Charity Makes Oshkosh Debut
General/business aviation charity Turtles Fly Too is looking for volunteer pilots and aircraft owners to help transport some aquatic hitchhikers.
Animal care workers unload crated sea turtles from a business aircraft at a Florida airport. The creatures, weakened by their exposure to cold Massachusetts fall weather, will recuperate for several months before they are released back into the wild.
Animal care workers unload crated sea turtles from a business aircraft at a Florida airport. The creatures, weakened by their exposure to cold Massachusetts fall weather, will recuperate for several months before they are released back into the wild.

After several years of rescuing hundreds of sea turtles that wash up on New England beaches each fall as temperatures drop, the general aviation conservation charity Turtles Fly Too (TF2) is exhibiting this week at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, with a booth in the Federal Pavilion.