Sustainability and Environment
Sheltair Partners With Sea Turtle Rescue Charity
Turtles Fly Too has been recruiting private pilots to carry stranded sea turtles since 2014. FBO chain Sheltair will now make it easier for them.
Rescued sea turtle
Since its founding in 2014, Turtles Fly Too has helped rescue hundreds of stranded sea turtles through the use of volunteer pilots and aircraft. A partnership with Florida-based FBO chain Sheltair will help ease the financial burden for those pilots.

Sheltair has announced a partnership with sea turtle rescue charity Turtles Fly Too under which the FBO chain will offer fuel discounts for pilots engaged in turtle transport flights.

When the weather turns colder along the Eastern U.S., sea turtles swept north by the Gulf Stream become stranded on beaches as far north as Cape Cod in Massachusetts. As water temperatures drop, these creatures become “cold-stunned” and are unable to survive unless they are quickly collected by animal rescue agencies and taken to local aquariums. Those facilities can soon become overwhelmed and the turtles must then be swiftly transported to southern aquariums where they are rehabilitated and released back into the ocean.