• John Flynn was born at Moliagul in Central Victoria on 25 November 1880
             • Flynn graduated in 1910, and was ordained as a Minister of Church in January 1911
             • In 1911 John Flynn took up his first job at Beltana Mission in the north of South Australia. Flynn became very close to the people of the outback and in 1912 he was appointed as the first Superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM), the 'bush department' of the Presbyterian Church.
             • John Flynn was 51 when he married the secretary of the AIM, Miss Jean Baird, in 1932.
             • He died in 1951 and is buried at Mt Gillen near Alice Springs.
             • Flynn began establishing bush hospitals and nursing homes in remote outback areas which improved much of the loneliness of the inland.
             • In 1925 John Flynn met Alf Traeger, an Adelaide engineer, and soon Traeger was employed as a radio expert and electrician by the Australian Inland Mission (AIM). Within a few months the pair had established Morse code communications across a distance of 140 kilometers.
             • Flynn saw the potential of airplanes to do flying doctors service and set his mind to achieving it. He set several years aside for fund raising and by 1928, the AIM had enough money to establish a flying doctor scheme
             • On 15 May 1928, the Aerial Medical Service was established as a one year experiment at Cloncurry in Queensland. After many years of dreaming, hard work and planning the Flying Doctor Service was actually happening.
             • There are now 14 bases which cover two thirds of Australia. 33 aircraft fly over 5 million miles each year bringing attention to more than 100 000 patients of whom 9 000 are transported to hospital. Routine visits are made to remote settlements. Small hospitals where there is no resident doctor are administered by the R.F.D.S. People travel up to 50 miles or more to visit an R.F.D.S. cl
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