Citation Special Olympics Airlift Is Underway

About 325 Cessna Citations are involved in the sixth Special Olympics Citation airlift, which is being sponsored and managed by Wichita-based Cessna Aircraft. Many Citation owners and operators are donating their airplanes, pilots and fuel to the effort, which transported more than 800 athletes and coaches to the Lincoln, Neb., games last Saturday and will return them home July 24. "For these world-class athletes, the airlift is their only means of transportation and the only way for them to have the opportunity to compete as world-class athletes," said 2010 Special Olympics USA National Games president and CEO Charles Cooper.