Airlift Flies 800 Special Olympics Athletes, Coaches
This is the eighth time Textron Aviation has organized the Special Olympics Airlift.
Coaches and athletes disembark from a Cessna Citation X on Saturday at Orlando Executive Airport in Florida to attend the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games. Their free transportation was arranged through Textron Aviation's Special Olympics Airlift. (Photo: Barry Ambrose/AIN)
Coaches and athletes disembark from a Cessna Citation X on Saturday at Orlando Executive Airport in Florida to attend the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games. Their free transportation was arranged through Textron Aviation's Special Olympics Airlift. (Photo: Barry Ambrose/AIN)

More than 120 Textron Aviation turbine aircraft departed from 28 states on Saturday to transport athletes and their coaches to the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games in Orlando, Florida. Beechcraft, Cessna Citation, and Hawker aircraft participating in the Special Olympics Airlift landed and took off every three minutes for about eight hours that day at Orlando Executive Airport.