In 1995 three private pilots from The Netherlands, either working in the field of medicine or in aviation, were confronted with the fact that pacemaker bearing pilots at that time were restricted in their authorisation to operate as pilot in command, due to medical regulations. This in disregard of the fact that the reliability of implanted pacing devices was already extremely high at the time. More research was aparently needed to clarify the actual risk of pilots bearing pacemakers in aviation. We thus decided to contribute to the field of aviation medicine by setting up this foundation for aviation medicine research and initiating research projects in this field through the foundation, several of which have already been published in recent years in international journals. During the period 2008 until 2014 the Foundation was owner of a Piper 235 Dakota with registration PH-PJB. It was used for the research flights performed for our recent project involving ICD’s in single engine fixed-wing aircraft. After completion of the project, the airplane was sold again. This project was a collaboration with the Military Hospital of The Netherlands. Currently we rent a Piper Turbo Arrow IV for our test flights in the new project on hypoxia.