Callum Wallace Pushes for Home Suite Hope

Callum Wallace, a civilian pilot and Engel & Völkers Oakville advisor, made history as the fourth Canadian to make a successful solo circumnavigation of the Earth in a small aircraft.

The incredible journey, known as Flight for Hope, culminated in October 2023 when Wallace touched down at Burlington Executive Airport.

Flight for Hope, a daring round-the-world expedition in a small single-engine aircraft, was undertaken by Callum Wallace to support the Burlington-based charity Home Suite Hope.

The challenging voyage took Wallace through an extensive flight path, covering multiple countries and continents. His journey began in Quebec, and traversed through Iqaluit, Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, Wales, England, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka. Wallace also made critical stops in Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, and Christmas Island.

The epic adventure has garnered significant attention and support, with funds raised through Flight for Hope being donated to Home Suite Hope, a Canadian charity dedicated to making a difference in the lives of homeless single parents.

Home Suite Hope’s transformative four-year program provides homeless single parents vital support, including rental subsidies, access to childcare, transportation, two years of college education, life skills training, professional development, mentorship, employment support, and intensive case management. The ultimate goal is financial independence and long-term stability, with a positive intergenerational impact.

Mr. Wallace joins an august fraternity of only seven-hundred pilots who’ve flown around the wide world in single-engine aircraft. Among his new contemporaries are American pilots Peter Teahen and John Ockenfels, who on Sunday, 30 July 2023, landed their jointly-owned Cessna 210 Centurion in Cedar Rapids, Iowa after completing a ninety-day, 25,323-mile flight around the world. Like Wallace, the pair undertook the perilous journey in service of a greater good—raising awareness of polio and funds with which to fight the disease, which remains a scourge on vast tracts of the world.

Peter Teahen, a Cedar Rapids funeral home director, and John Ockenfels, the retired CEO of an Iowa City recycling concern, departed Cedar Rapids’s Eastern Iowa Airport (CID) on 05 May 2023 in N732WP, a 1977 Cessna 210M Centurion.

FMI: www.flightforhope.com