About Wings of Life over Malone:

Wings of Life Over Malone was founded by Victor Fellion of Fellion's Diamond Center in Malone NY, and it helps make it possible for people in need to make trips to and from hospitals in and around the Northeast area.

This service is totally supported by Victor Fellion and a portion of each sale at Fellion's Diamond Center goes to support his Wings of Life Over Malone Program. When you shop at Fellion's, you help Victor support a person in need.

This is a free service, with no restrictions as to income or net worth.

A passion for flying and helping others is where it all began.

In 1994, Victor purchased a Cessna Cardinal C-177 airplane and he promised himself that if he could afford to buy the plane, he would use it to help people.

When he first started, he was asked to fly eyes that were donated by individuals to the Albany Eye Bank. Due to the limited life a pair of eyes would last, timing was an issue. He would wait at the hangar in Malone, then the eyes would be delivered to Victor by the Harvest nurse, and he would leave for Albany. The trip took approx 90 minutes allowing for the eye bank to preserve the eyes to give someone sight. As technology has developed, the eyes were able to be preserved at the time of donation, therefore flying wasn't necessary to fly the eyes to Albany in a timely manner.

Then Victor began flying for people.

"My passion in life is flying, and if I can help people in need, and get to fly, I really have the best of both worlds.

I think I make a difference in peoples lives, by helping them through rough times, in making trips to and from hospitals for them easier, and less stressful.

Some can't afford the expense of the trip overland due to an old car, or the drain on finances to get back and forth. Some people have to get to a hospital, then back home due to other children, or other circumstances that demand a faster way to take care of their specific issue, or a trip back home after chemo is too much of a drain on them physically.

For all these reasons, and other emergency issues, I fly for people, to make their situation a little easier to deal with.

Since 1994, there have been many many times and memories of people that I have helped some happy and some sad, as I lost a patient that I had been flying for approx 3 1/2 years to Burlington a she was fighting Cancer. The family and Brit developed a close relationship with me, and it was a sad time when she lost her battle. Brit is still on my mind, and I will never forget her and her love of flying in my plane . She sent me a picture of her and her mom. on the back, she said " with love from your frequent flyers."

Victor has flown people as far away as South Carolina, into airports such as JFK, Boston, MAS. Charlotte, NC. Dorval Montreal, and many many other airports.