This would be the last time the current generation flying hospital, a modified DC-11 wide body plane, of Orbis International visiting Taiwan, and the local Orbis office organized a charity event for the local people to tour the plane one last time.

After checked in at Taipei Songshan Airport, we passed the security to the tarmac, where a bus took us to the plane. Onboard the plane, volunteers of the Orbis International explained to us how eye examinations and operations were performed on this flying hospital, and how the plane served as a pivot for ophthalmology educations in developing countries.

Maybe due to there were a lot of people that wanted to visit the flying hospital, we were not allowed to take photos inside the plane. But we were shared one interesting tidbit was that all nurses of the flying hospital were also certificated flight attendants.

The boarding pass of the flying hospital.


This DC-11 was almost 40 years old.


Volunteers from United Airlines and FedEx handled the maintenance of the plane.


Logo of Orbis International on the vertical stabilizer and third engine.


I didn’t have a chance to take a photo of the entire plane so I had to make do with this model.


Other photos of the day were uploaded to the photo album.