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Previous Winners: 1988 - Present
Winners are listed by calendar year in which the award was presented. They are judged on work done in the previous calendar year.
Note: Due to Covid schedule changes there were no Laureates in 2023
Past Laureate Award Winners
| SPACE |
|---|
| 2024: NASA/Lockheed Martin Osiris-Rex |
| 2022: NASA/Northrop Grumman James Webb Space Telescope |
| 2021: NASA/JPL Mars Ingenuity |
| 2020: RemoveDebris Mission |
| 2019: Rocket Lab Electron |
| COMMERCIAL AVIATION |
| 2024: Universal Hydrogen |
| 2022: Airbus Fello’fly |
| 2021: Boeing 737 MAX Joint Authorities Technical Review |
| 2020: Airbus A321LR/XLR |
| 2019: Embraer E-Jet E2 |
| DEFENSE |
| 2024: Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider |
| 2022: Autonomous Blackhawk, DARPA and Sikorsky |
| 2021: U.S. Space Force Establishment |
| 2020: Embraer C-390 Millennium |
| 2019: Royal Netherlands Air Force/Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Fleet |
| BUSINESS AVIATION |
| 2024: GAMA Electric Propulsion and Innovation Committee |
| 2022: RedTail Flight Academy |
| 2021: Pipistrel Velis Electro |
| 2020: Garmin Autoland |
| MRO (new category in 2024) |
| 2024: Delta TechOps |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2014 | US Navy/Northrop Grumman X-47B team - Naval Air Systems Command (Patuxent River, MD) and Northrop Grumman (San Diego, CA) |
| 2013 | Speed Agile-Powered Lift System Concept demonstration team |
| 2012 | The Boeing 787 Dreamliner Team, for combining advanced aerodynamics, new composite materials, and more-electric systems to bring the first new commercial jet of the century to market |
| 2011 | The X-51A Waverider Hypersonic Vehicle Team (X-51A Program Managers Charles F. Brink, US Air Force Research Laboratory's Propulsion Directorate, Wright Patterson Air Force Base; George Thum, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne; and Joseph Vogel, Boeing Phantom Works) |
| 2010 | Jeff Braun, director of the U.S. Air Force Alternative Fuels Certification Office |
| 2009 | Pratt & Whitney PW1000G geared turbofan development team |
| 2008 | Robert Cowart, Project Engineer, Gulfstream Aerospace Donald Howe, Staff Scientist, Technical Fellow, Gulfstream Aerospace Leslie Molzahn, Flight Test Operations Engineer, NASA Dryden Research Center Frank Simmons III, PhD, P.E., Gulfstream Aerospace James Smolka, Research Test Pilot, NASA Dryden Research Center |
| 2007 | Mark Lewis, Chief Scientist, US Air Force |
| 2006 | Robert Lafontan, SVP for Engineering; Fernando Alonso, VP for Flight Test; Jaques Rosay, Chief Test Pilot and the entire A380 engineering and flight test team, Airbus |
| 2005 | Vincent Rausch, Program Manager and Randall Voland, Engine Developer, at NASA's Langley Research Center, and Anthony Castrogiovanni, President, ATK GASL and the X-43 Hyper-X Scramjet |
| 2004 | Ken Hyde, Scott Crossfield, Kevin Kochersberger and Terry Queijo and other members of the Wright Experience Noel Forgeard, Chief Executive, and the Men and Women of Airbus |
| 2003 | Kent Kresa, President & CEO, Northrop Grumman Jean-Francois Bigay, Chairman & CEO, Eurocopter |
| 2002 | Robert F. Faulkner Joaquin H. Castro Curtis W. Berger Robert Mercier Fabrice Bregier Alan Garwood Mario di Donato |
| 2001 | Mauricio Botelho Boris Katorgin Vladimir Chvanov Lawrence Tanner Robert Ford John Karas |
| 2000 | Moshe Keret |
| 1999 | Serge Dassault |
| 1998 | Jean Pierson |
| 1997 | Phil Condit Alan Mulally Ronald Ostrowski Dale Hougardy |
| 1996 | Ray Morgan Bob Curtin |
| 1995 | Charles H. Kaman |
| 1994 | Laurent Beaudoin |
| 1993 | Daniel M. Tellep |
| 1992 | Bernard Ziegler Pierre Baud Jacques Troyes |
| 1991 | Lt Col Felix Sanchez |
| 1990 | Jean-Luc Lagadere Jean-Luis Gergorin Philippe Camus Ben Rich |
| 1989 | Thomas V. Jones |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2014 | RTCA Special Committee 213 (Washington, DC) |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 4AIR for Business Aviation Sustainability RedTail Flight Academy — GRAND LAUREATE WINNER Signature Flight Support SAF Utilization Textron Aviation Cessna 408 SkyCourier VRM Switzerland |
| 2021 | Aerobility International Aircraft Dealers Association Pfizer Corporate Flight Department Pipistrel Velis Electro |
| 2020 | Safety: Garmin Autoland |
| 2019 | Platform: Bombardier Global 7500 |
| 2018 | Pilatus PC-24 Versatile Jet |
| 2017 | Wheels Up |
| 2016 | Scott Ernest, Textron Aviation and Scott Donnelly, Textron |
| 2015 | Nextant Aerospace, for bringing technology to business aviation at less cost by remanufacturing aircraft |
| 2014 | Bradley Mottier (Cincinnati, OH) |
| 2013 | Walter Fricke, AirBoss, Veterans Airlift Command |
| 2012 | Preston Henne, SVP Programs, Engineering & Test, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, for his role in designing, developing, and testing the Gulfstream 650 on-schedule, despite setbacks |
| 2011 | Randall Greene, Chairman, President & CEO, Safe Flight Instrument Corporation |
| 2010 | Clayton Jones, Chairman, President & CEO, Rockwell Collins |
| 2009 | General Dynamics and Gulfstream Aerospace |
| 2008 | Jack Pelton, Chairman, CEO & President, Cessna Aircraft Company |
| 2007 | Robert Agostino, Director of Flight Operations, Bombardier Business Aircraft |
| 2006 | John Rosanvallon, President & CEO, Dassault Falcon Jet Corporation Olivier Villa, Senior Vice President, Dassault Falcon Jet Corporation |
| 2005 | Ballistic Recovery Systems |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Airbus Fello’fly — GRAND LAUREATE WINNER Air France-KLM for Sustainability Efforts Spirit AeroSystems Steve Dickson for Leadership Transport & Environment |
| 2021 | Michael Schoellhorn, Airbus Boeing 737 MAX Joint Authorities Technical Review Boeing Sustainable Aviation Fuel Initiative GE Aviation Junior Officer Leadership Program |
| 2020 | Platform: Airbus A321LR |
| 2019 | Platform: Embraer E-Jet E2 |
| 2018 | Tom Gentile, President & CEO, Spirit AeroSystems |
| 2017 | Bombardier |
| 2016 | John Crichton, NAV Canada |
| 2015 | Airbus A350 program head Didier Evrard |
| 2014 | Willie Walsh (London, Hounslow, UK) |
| 2013 | Richard Anderson, Chairman & CEO, Delta Air Lines |
| 2012 | John Borghetti, CEO, Virgin Australia, for leading one of the airline industry's most dramatic transformations and cementing Virgin Australia as a major international player |
| 2011 | Jim French, Chairman & CEO, Flybe |
| 2010 | Wolfgang Mayrhuber, CEO, Lufthansa |
| 2009 | Tony Fernandes |
| 2008 | John Byerly, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Transportation Affairs Daniel Calleja, Director, Air Transport Directorate, European Commission |
| 2007 | Captain G.R. Gopinath, (Ret), Managing Director, Air Deccan |
| 2006 | Jean-Cyril Spinetta, Chairman & CEO, Air France/KLM Leo M. van Wijk, Vice Chairman, Air France/KLM |
| 2005 | David Neeleman, CEO, jetBlue Airways |
| 2004 | Joe Leonard, Chairman & CEO, Air Tran Airways |
| 2003 | Cheong Chong Kong, Vice Chairman/CEO, Singapore Airlines Michael O'Leary, CEO, Ryanair |
| 2002 | Donald J. Carty, Robert Baker, and the Men and Women of American Airlines |
| 2001 | John H. Dasburg and the Men and Women of Northwest Airlines |
| 2000 | Sir Richard Branson |
| 1999 | James Strong Peter Sutch |
| 1998 | Richard T. Santulli |
| 1997 | Gordon Bethune Christian Blanc |
| 1996 | Nikolai Feodorovich Zobov |
| 1995 | Herman De Croo |
| 1994 | Alexander P. Pleshakov Grigory A. Gurtovoy |
| 1993 | Herbert D. Kelleher |
| 1992 | Ronald W. Allen |
| 1991 | Frederick W. Smith |
| 1990 | Lord King Sir Colin Marshall |
| 1989 | Robert L. Crandall |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Autonomous Black Hawk, DARPA and Sikorsky — GRAND LAUREATE WINNER Afghan Airlift, Air Mobility Command Vanilla Unmanned, Platform Aerospace Korea Aerospace Industries KF-21 Derek Tournear, Director of the Space Development Agency |
| 2021 | Boeing Airpower Teaming System GE Aviation XA100 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Golden Horde U.S. Space Force Establishment |
| 2020 | Best New Product: Embraer C-390 |
| 2019 | Operations: Royal Netherlands Air Force/Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Fleet |
| 2018 | U.S. Missile Defense Agency/Boeing Ground-based Midcourse Defense System |
| 2017 | DARPA, Naval Air Systems Command and Lockheed Martin |
| 2016 | Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory |
| 2015 | Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) return-to-flight team |
| 2014 | French Defense Armaments Agency DGA/Dassault Aviation Neuron (Saint-Cloud, France) |
| 2013 | K-Max Cargo Unmanned Aircraft Systems Team |
| 2012 | The Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Satellite Recovery Team, for rescuing the US Air Force's $2-billion AEHF satellite after its main propulsion subsystem failed |
| 2011 | USAF Maj Gen (Ret) Michael C. Kostelnik, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Air and Marine, US Customs and Border Protection |
| 2010 | The US Air Force's Project Liberty Team (Kim High, Deputy Director, USAF Big Safari Program; Lt Gen David Deptula, Deputy Chief of Staff for ISR for the Air Force; Robert Spivey, VP Special Programs, L-3 Communications; and Matthew Hallman, Director of Field Operations, L-3 Communications) |
| 2009 | VUIT-2 Project |
| 2008 | Capt Randy Mahr, E-2D Program Manager |
| 2007 | RADM Giuseppe De Giorgi, Commander, Italian Maritime Forces |
| 2006 | US Air Force and Georgia Air National Guard's 16th Airborne Command and Control Squadron |
| 2005 | US Army Vice Chief of Staff General Richard Cody and US Air Force Gen John Handy, Chief of Air Mobility Command & US Transportation Command |
| 2004 | Steve Griffin, Boeing Kimberly Tran, Boeing |
| 2003 | VADM Arthur K. Cebrowski, US Navy (Ret), Director, Office of Force Transformation |
| 2002 | Carl O. Johnson Coll Wayne Johnson Gen Lester Lyles |
| 2001 | John J. Hamre |
| 2000 | Gen John Jumper Lt Gen Michael Short |
| 1999 | VXE-6, Navy Antarctic Development Squadron |
| 1998 | Larry D. McClain Robert G. Myers |
| 1997 | William Perry |
| 1996 | Mary Fackler Schiavo |
| 1995 | Alexander W. Riedy |
| 1994 | John B. Alexander |
| 1993 | Malcolm Rifkind |
| 1992 | Lt Gen Charles A. Horner |
| 1991 | Ambassador R. James Woolsey |
| 1990 | Marshal Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeyev Hubert Curien Paul H. Nitze |
| 1989 | Lord Carrington |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2015 | GE Aviation head of additive manufacturing strategy Greg Morris |
| 2013 | The Newark Liberty International Airport Ground-Based Augmentation System Team |
| 2012 | Swedish Air Force Team Members and the Danish Military, for successfully and quickly integrating Link 16 on the Saab JAS-39 Gripen in support of NATO operations over Libya |
| 2011 | The Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System Team (Program Managers Edward Griffin, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, and Donald Swihart, US Air Force Research Laboratory) |
| 2010 | Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems' Joint High-Power Solid-State Laser Phase 3 Team (Jay Marmo, Program Manager, and Stuart McNaught, Laser Integration Lead), as well as Mark Neice, Director of the High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Brian Strickland, Chief Scientist at the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command |
| 2009 | International Air Transport Association |
| 2008 | Paul Fontaine, Program Manager, Safe Flight 21, Federal Aviation Administration (1999-2005) Capt Robert C. Hilb, Advanced Flight Systems Manager, UPS Airlines Capt Karen D. Lee, Director of Flight Operations, UPS Airlines |
| 2007 | Lt Gen Walter E. Buchanan III, (Ret), USAF |
| 2005 | Andrew K. Barrows, CEO, Nav3D Corp Steve Fulton, CTO, Naverus Lars G.V. Lindberg, President, Avtech John Marris, President, Marinvent Corp |
| 2004 | Brad Cornell, Airplane Systems Engineer, Boeing Walter Dollman, Regulatory and Industry Affairs Manager, Qantas Craig Roberts, Operations Specialist, Airservices Australia Helene Serrand, Senior Navigation Engineer, Airbus Mike Watson, Operations Support Manager, Thales |
| 2003 | William R. Boario, Air Force Research Laboratory (Retired) William Brown, Chief Scientist, Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory Jack Walker, Veridia ERIM International (Retired) |
| 2001 | Capt David A. Dunaway, USN Lawrence Fullerton Thomas A. Kennedy, Raytheon Donald A. Thole, Boeing |
| 2000 | Capt Roger Arrowood Lt Gen Thomas Keck Lawrence Mitchell Jim Onorato |
| 1999 | Eugene Joseph |
| 1998 | Francis Bernard |
| 1997 | Donald Bateman |
| 1996 | Olof Lundberg |
| 1995 | Brian O'Keeffe |
| 1994 | John R. Kreick |
| 1993 | Norman R. Augustine |
| 1992 | Paul J. Coco Col Harry H. Heimple Gerard J. McNiff |
| 1991 | Thomas L. Phillips |
| 1990 | Cdr George W. Hoover |
| 1989 | John H. Staehlin |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Jaiwon Shin, NASA Associate Administrator for Aeronautics |
| 2016 | Aurora Flight Sciences |
| 2015 | Raytheon and Saab, for bringing gallium nitride (GaN) electronics to military radar and electronic-warfare systems |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Lufthansa Technik |
| 2013 | Alan Butterfield, VP Maintenance & Engineering, Air Canada |
| 2012 | Patrick Doyle, Senior Manager, Hangar Maintenance (Avionics & Powerplants), FedEx, for his efforts to identify common causes of avionics failures |
| 2011 | Tim Sassenrath, Director, Apache Worldwide Support, Boeing |
| 2010 | Timothy Gray, Director of the 526th Electronic Maintenance Squadron, "Generators" |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Operation Burnt Frost |
| 2008 | Officer Sarmad Aziz Shuttle Lead Spacewalk Officer Dina Contella Flight Director Derek Hassmann Astronaut Scott E. Parazynski |
| 2007 | Team of AC-130 Gunship Operations (Lt Col Ted Fordyce, Commander, 16th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron, US Air Force; Lt Col Robert Monroe, Commander, 4th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron, US Air Force) |
| 2006 | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Satellite and Information and Service US Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron US Coast Guard Aviators Gary Davis, Director Systems Development, NOAA USAF Reserve Brig Gen Charles Ethredge USCG Capt Mike Moore Greg Withee |
| 2005 | Flight Lt A.P. Dhanake Indian Air Force Wing Cdr S.K. Sharma |
| 2004 | MCpl Dave Cooper, 103 Rescue Squadron Canadian Forces SAR TSgt Emilio Dechantal, 103 Rescue Squadron Canadian Forces Cpl Scott Elliston, 103 Rescue Squadron Canadian Forces First Officer Capt Andrew Mercer, 103 Rescue Squadron Canadian Forces Maj Gilbert Thibault, 103 Rescue Squadron Canadian Forces Flight Engineer, MCpl Rob Vidito, 103 Rescue Squadron Canadian Forces |
| 2003 | J. Stephen Fossett |
| 2002 | Hermis Moutardier Cristina Jones |
| 2001 | Lt Dan Molthen Lt (jg) Craig Neubecker PO Darren Reeves PO Lorne Green |
| 2000 | Lt Col Steve Laushine |
| 1999 | Australian Helimed Bell 412 Crew HH-60J Jayhawk Crew, US Coast Guard |
| 1998 | Flight crews from US Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater and US Air Force Reserve 920th Rescue Group |
| 1997 | Lt Col Madan K.C. |
| 1996 | Brig Gen Martin Berndt Lt Col Christopher J. Gunther Capt Thomas O. Hanford |
| 1995 | Richard DeMary |
| 1994 | Flight Crews of a Royal Air Force Westland Sea King and Sikorsky S-61N |
| 1993 | Co-Pilot Ulf Cedermark Capt Stefan Rasmussen |
| 1992 | Flying Doctors of Mercy |
| 1991 | Gen Hansford T. Johnson |
| 1990 | Second Officer Dudley Dvorak Dennis Fitch Capt Alfred C. Haynes First Officer William Records First Officer Madeline "Mimi" Tompkins |
| 1989 | Capt Robert Schornstheimer |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2022 | James Webb Space Telescope, NASA-Northrop Grumman — GRAND LAUREATE WINNER Russia-Ukraine War Imagery, Maxar Technologies Peter Beck, Rocket Lab Kerry Buckley, Mitre Corp. |
| 2021 | Dan Hart, President and CEO, Virgin Orbit NASA/JPL Mars Ingenuity Northrop Grumman Mission Extension Vehicle SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 |
| 2020 | Technology & Innovation: RemoveDEBRIS Mission |
| 2019 | Launchers: Rocket Lab Electron |
| 2018 | SpaceX |
| 2017 | Blue Origin |
| 2016 | NASA's New Horizons Mission Team |
| 2015 | European Space Agency, Rosetta comet rendezvous mission |
| 2014 | Jean-Yves Le Gall (Paris, France) |
| 2013 | Curiosity Entry, Descent, and Landing Team |
| 2012 | Kepler Mission Team, for searching the Milky Way for Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars, leading to the discovery of 1,235 exoplanet candidates—68 of which are similar to Earth |
| 2011 | The Radar Imaging Commercialization Team (Vark Helfritz, Managing Director, Infoterra GmbH; John Hornsby, President, MDA Geospatial Services Inc; and Marcello Maranesi, CEO, e-GEOS) |
| 2010 | International Space Station Program Managers Pierre Jean, Canadian Space Agency; Bernardo Patti, European Space Agency; Yoshiyuki Hasegawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; Alexey Krasnov, Roscosmos; and Michael Suffredini, NASA |
| 2009 | Elon Musk |
| 2008 | Yoshisada Takizawa, Selene Project Manager, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| 2007 | Stardust Comet Sample Return Mission Team (Don Brownlee, Stardust Principal Investigator, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington; Tom Duxbury, Stardust Project Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Peter Tsou, Stardust Deputy Project Investigator, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Joseph Vellinga, Stardust Program Manager, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co) |
| 2006 | The Cassini/Huygens Spacecraft Team (Dennis Matson, Project Scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Project Scientist and Mission Manager, ESA) |
| 2005 | The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cornell University, and Aerospace Industry Mars Exploration Rover Team |
| 2004 | Col Yang Liwei, People's Liberation Army Air Force |
| 2003 | Ronald D. Dittemore, NASA Space Shuttle Program Manager William H. Gerstenmaier, NASA Program Manager, International Space Station Russell D. Turner, President/Chief Executive Officer, United Space Alliance Joe Mills, Boeing Program Manager, International Space Station |
| 2002 | Thomas Coughlin Robert Farquhar Bobby Williams Joseph Veverka NEAR Mission Team |
| 2001 | Michael Malin Kenneth Edgett |
| 2000 | Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope Operations Team |
| 1999 | Daniel Goldin |
| 1998 | Anthony J. Spear Brian K. Muirhead Rob Manning Richard Cook |
| 1997 | Bary R. Bertiger Kenneth M. Peterson Raymond J. Leopold |
| 1996 | Alvin Seiff John Casani William O'Neil |
| 1995 | Col Pedro L. Rustan Jr. Paul Regeon |
| 1994 | Hubble Space Telescope Service Team |
| 1993 | George Smoot John Mather |
| 1992 | Shuttle Mission 39 Military Team Shuttle Mission 40 Spacelab Life Sciences Team |
| 1991 | Kurt Heftman David Wilkins |
| 1990 | Edward Stone |
| 1989 | RADM Richard H. Truly |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2017 | BAE Systems and Gulfstream |
| 2016 | NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Marion Blakey, President & CEO, Aerospace Industries Association Susan Lavrakas, Director, Workforce, Aerospace Industries Association |
| 2012 | Paul Graziani, Founder & CEO, Analytical Graphics Inc, for donating software licenses to educational institutions and encouraging students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math |
| 2011 | Rick Stephens, SVP HR & Administration, Boeing |
| 2010 | Ronald Sugar, Chairman Emeritus of Northrop Grumman |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, executive chairman, Air Lease Corp. Marc Parent, president and CEO, CAE |
| 2021 | Marillyn Hewson, former Lockheed Martin CEO |
| 2020 | Robert Leduc, former Pratt & Whitney president |
| 2019 | Tom Enders, Airbus CEO Paul Annlen, philanthropist and entrepreneur (posthumous award) |
| 2018 | Dr. John S. Langford, Chairman and CEO, Aurora Flight Sciences Bruce Whitman, Chairman, President and CEO, FlightSafety International |
| 2017 | Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., (USMC-Ret.) John Tracy, Boeing |
| 2016 | Dr. Charles Elachi, Director, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| 2015 | David Thompson, Orbital John Leahy, Airbus |
| 2014 | Laurent Beaudoin (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Harold Rosen (Santa Monica, CA) |
| 2013 | C. Don Bateman, Chief Engineer, Corporate Fellow, Flight Safety Systems, Honeywell |
| 2012 | Pete Rustan, Former Director for Mission Support, US National Reconnaissance Office, for pioneering numerous technical advances in space and aviation |
| 2011 | Thomas J. Cassidy, Jr., retired president of the Aircraft Systems Group, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Abraham Karem, founder of Karem Aircraft Inc. |
| 2010 | Richard W. Taylor, Boeing Designer and Test Pilot |
| 2009 | The Honorable Alan S. Boyd |
| 2008 | Mauricio Botelho, Chairman, Embraer. |
| 2007 | Dr. Edward C. Stone, David Morrisroe Professor of Physics and Vice Provost for Special Projects, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 2006 | Patty Wagstaff, Acrobatic Flying Champion |
| 2005 | Assad Kotaite, President of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization William R. (Bob) Laidlaw, former head of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and Founder of Aerotest |
| 2004 | Keith Ferris, Aviation Artist Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| 2003 | Fitzhugh Fulton, U.S. Air Force/NASA and Civilian Test Pilot |
| 2002 | Leonard Greene Noel W. Hinners |
| 2001 | Jean-Luc Lagardere |
| 2000 | Edmund F. Ball |
| 1999 | Paul MacCready |
| 1998 | John W. Young A. Scott Crossfield |
| 1997 | Capt. E. B. Jeppesen |
| 1996 | Richard H. Frost |
| 1995 | Albert L. Ueltschi |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2003 | Steven Udvar-Hazy, Jack Dailey, Don Lopez and the men and women of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2017 | The Kenn Borek Air crews |
| 2016 | U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Gregory Swarz |
| 2014 | World Canadian Airforce Rescue 912 Crew (Comox, Canada) |
| 2013 | United States Coast Guard |
| 2012 | C-17 Globemaster III Aircrew Members of "Ice 68" from the 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings of the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, who performed a life-saving rescue of a government contractor from McMurdo Station, Antarctica |
| 2011 | Captain Daniel Aufdenblatten, Air Zermatt Richard Lehner, Swiss Mountain Guide |
| 2009 | United States Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk, HH-65 Dolphin, HC-130 Hercules Rescue Teams |
| 2008 | The British Royal Navy Sea King Helicopter Crew (Lieutenant Commander Matt Shrimpton (RN), Royal Marine Captain Damien "Daisy" May, Lieutenant Tim Barker (RN), Petty Officer Aircrewman Julian "Bungi" Williams (RN), and Sergeant Mark White (RAF) ) |
| 2007 | United States Coast Guard, LCDR Walter L. Horne, LCDR William R. Timmons, AMT3 Karl A. Schickle, and AST3 Jon E. Houlberg for a harrowing, life-saving HH-60J rescue, conducted on March 14th, 2006 |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Midshipman First Class Cade Trauger, United States Naval Academy Cadet First Class Taylor Jin Young, United States Coast Guard Academy Cadet Lieutenant Timothy Austin Bradley Widner, United States Military Academy Cadet First Class Timothy Goulet, United States Air Force Academy |
| 2021 | MIDN LT Dan Curren, U.S. Naval Academy 3/c Cadet Alexander W. Regan, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Cadet Captain Emma Sophia San Martin, U.S. Military Academy C1C Benjamin Waters, U.S. Air Force Academy |
| 2020 | C/Capt. Matthew Richard Arnold, United States Military Academy Cadet 1/c Jacob Patrick Cheeseman, United States Coast Guard Academy MIDN 1/C Patrick N. Simons, United States Naval Academy Cadet 1/C Albert Q. Thieu, United States Air Force Academy |
| 2019 | MIDN Aaron Martinez, United States Naval Academy Cadet 1/C Ryan Olson, United States Air Force Academy C/Capt. Bogue M. Waller, United States Military Academy Cadet 2/C Austin Brown, United States Coast Guard Academy |
| 2018 | MIDN 1/C Chris Cantillo, United States Naval Academy C1C Benjamin R. Hook, United States Air Force Academy Cadet Lieutenant Kurt M. Klinkmueller, United States Military Academy 2/c Marshall Reyburn, United States Coast Guard Academy |
| 2017 | Michael Cremins, Cadet Lieutenant, United States Military Academy David Creswell, 2/c Cadet, United States Coast Guard Academy Ryan Speir, Midshipman First Class, United States Naval Academy Young Yuyang Wu, Cadet Colonel, United States Air Force Academy |
| 2016 | Quinn Kelley Hathcock, Cadet Second Class, United States Coast Guard Academy |
| 2015 | Rebecca A. Esselstein, Cadet First Class, United States Air Force Academy Andrew Nicholas Ford, Cadet Lieutenant, United States Military Academy Jacquelyn Susanne Kubicko, Second Class Cadet, United States Coast Guard Academy Samuel Lacinski, Midshipm an Lieutenant, United States Naval Academy |
| 2014 | Daniel John Eichner, Cadet Captain and Battalion Commander, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, United States Military Academy Nicole Marie Garrett, Second Class Cadet, United States Coast Guard Academy Christopher James Shannon, Cadet First Class, United States Air Force Academy Christopher Kenneth Voss, Midshipman First Class, United States Naval Academy |
| 2013 | Zachary Howard Adams, Cadet First Class, United States Air Force Academy Matthew George Gallup, Cadet Lieutenant, United States Military Academy Erik William Oredson, Cadet First Class, United States Coast Guard Academy Benjamin Lee Putbrese, Midshipman First Class, United States Naval Academy |
| 2012 | Tyler Dewechter, Cadet, United States Coast Guard Academy Dustin Hayhurst, Cadet, United States Air Force Academy Cameron Thornberry, Cadet, United States Naval Academy Jack Scudder, Cadet, United States Military Academy at West Point |
| 2011 | Matthew Craig Belanger, Cadet, United States Military Academy at West Point Nicholas Connor Dunn, Cadet, United States Naval Academy Gregory Eslinger, Cadet, United States Air Force Academy Jordan Kellam, Cadet, United States Coast Guard Academy |
| 2010 | Alex Reiter, Cadet, United States Military Academy Taylor Richmond, Midshipman 1st Class, United States Naval Academy Nicholas Carter, Cadet 1st Class, United States Air Force Academy Matthew Delahunty, Cadet 1st Class, United States Coast Guard Academy |
| 2009 | Yujen Lien, Cadet Lt., United States Military Academy Margarete Frost, Midshipman First Class, United States Naval Academy Josiah VanderMey, Cadet Captain, United States Air Force Academy Conor Sven Madison, Cadet 1st Class, United States Coast Guard Academy |
| 2008 | John Hesling, Midshipman First Class, United States Naval Academy Joel Kurucar, First Class, United States Coast Guard Academy Joseph Robinson, Cadet First Class, United States Air Force Academy Christopher Westrom, Cadet, United States Military Academy |
| 2007 | Douglas Marsh, Midshipman First Class, United States Naval Academy Jeffrey Michael Rigney, Cadet, United States Military Academy Nathaniel L. Souleret, First Class, United States Coast Guard Academy Christopher A. Taylor, Cadet First Class, United States Air Force Academy |
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2007 | Student Cristhian Godoy |
| 2006 | Student Sean Cosme |
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