Air-Olina Aviation

06/07/2026

It was a beautiful Sunday morning to fly over Statesville! Thanks Amanda and Steven for flying with us!

05/18/2026

10/26/2025

✨ THANK YOU. ✨
The recovery from this event will take a few days, but the ✨glowing✨ feelings will last quite a while. Thank you to our generous community who came together to make GRAZE+GLOW a success, but more importantly, give us the ability to provide safe, inclusive therapeutic programs for kids + families. As a small nonprofit org, we cannot fulfill our mission without you.
To all of our SPONSORS – thank you for trusting us with your name and brand, and giving us the foundation to offer programs, services + events for the community.
To our GUESTS – thank you for traveling from near and far to experience this unique event + trust us with your time for the evening. We know it’s precious and you have a lot of options, especially in October. 🎃
To our BALLOON PARTNERS – we are so grateful to have met you four years ago on a whim, and even moreso to have become friends – thank you to Air-Olina Aviation and ALL of the pilots and crews who are so passionate about ballooning, and so willing to support us.
To our MUSIC PARTNER Paul Bradley Atkinson Music + VENDORS – you literally and figuratively add the vibe and flavor to our event!
And to our STAFF + VOLUNTEERS – there are not enough words to express our gratitude for all that you do for Equuvation—especially for our clients and our animals—but also going with the flow to put hot air balloons in hay fields, welcome hundreds of guests, and share your talents painting faces. And then you get up first thing in the morning to feed horses… because a farm never rests.
See everyone next year!

10/23/2025

One day left to get your tickets for GRAZE+GLOW!

Come see us, do some trick or treating, and support a great cause!

10/02/2025

We’ll be at Carolina BalloonFest in just a couple of weeks! Look for us in either this balloon for competition flights or our 🌈 bigger balloon for afternoons.

Help us welcome Drew Egerton from Statesville, NC, flying Jallao at the 50th Carolina BalloonFest!

They’ve been flying with us for 11 years, and we’re honored to have them back.

When asked why they keep coming back year after year, they simply said: “Competing with friends.”

We can’t wait to see them in the sky this October 17–19 in Statesville, NC!

09/11/2025

We’ve got some great weather coming up this weekend and short notice openings for some passenger flights!
Contact us here for more info!

09/08/2025

We had a wonderful weekend at Conner Prairie for the Jupiter Flights Balloon Festival at Conner Prairie!
This is our second time attending the event and it is absolutely top notch. Great people, hotel, compensation, venue, competition, etc.
Can’t wait to go back again next year.

Here are some of our favorite pics from the weekend!

09/02/2025

Early bird tickets are now available for GRAZE+GLOW 2025!