Through the mid-2010s, Los Médicos Voladores, the Flying Doctors, served about 11 villages in northern Mexico.
After a crackdown by the Mexican aviation authority (AFAC), the airfields in many of those villages have lost their airstrip licenses (maintaining these airstrips is expensive for the villages). Today, LMV serves smaller, more remote villages/pueblos and brings teams of 2-5 GA planes per trip.
Our clinics can be categorized as a “pop-up” or “Mash” type of clinic. We use local community centers, schools, and village health / dental clinics.
The Mexico trips usually fly in on Thursday, clinic on Friday and Saturday; return home on Sunday morning.
Currently, LMV, The Flying Doctors service the following villages:
(Links to a Google Map):
Casa Hogar Cañon Buena Vista Orphanage, — Our teams land at the local military air base Base Aérea Militar No. 3 Juan de La Barrera 5, Escritores, 22785 Ensenada, B.C., Mexico
Bahía Tortugas in Baja Sur -A fishing village of about 1500 inhabitants, in a remote area on the Pacific side. Video: LMV Volunteer Pilot’s Video outbound to Bahía Tortugas
San Pedro la Cueva in Sonora — a ranching village in the foothills of the Sierra Madre, est. population 2000. Video: LMV Volunteer Pilot’s Video outbound to San Pedro de la Cueva
Mulegé in Baja Sur — we do sporadic clinics in this “bush pilot popular” village on the Gulf of California side
Constitución in Baja Sur — a new addition for us, a good-sized ag town.