SPACE
2025: SpaceX Starship
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
2025: Airbus A321XLR
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
2025: Anduril Industries
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
2025: Russ Meyer, Cessna Aircraft
2024: GAMA Electric Propulsion and Innovation Committee
2022:  RedTail Flight Academy
2021: Pipistrel Velis Electro
2020: Garmin Autoland
MRO (new category in 2024)
2025: Aviation Supply Chain Integrity Coalition
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 BaudJacques 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
2025 : Russ Meyer, Cessna Aircraft — GRAND LAUREATE WINNER | Bombardier Aerospace | Garmin Runway Occupancy Awareness | Joby Aviation | Zack Anglin, Spartan College
2024 : Dassault Aviation FalconWays | NBAA Sustainable Flight Department Accreditation | SmartSky Networks | GAMA Electric Propulsion and Innovation Committee (EPIC) | Barrington Irving for leadership
2022 : RedTail Flight Academy — GRAND LAUREATE WINNER | 4AIR for Business Aviation Sustainability | Signature Flight Support SAF UtilizationTextron Aviation Cessna 408 SkyCourier | VRM Switzerland
2021 : Aerobility | International Aircraft Dealers AssociationPfizer 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

2025 : Airbus A321XLR — GRAND LAUREATE WINNER | Embry-Riddle Safety Center | NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed | SAS Scandinavian Airlines CEO Anko van der Werff | WestJet Airlines CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech
2024 : BEA (Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile) | Rolls-Royce UltraFan | Universal Hydrogen | American Airlines HEAT | Güliz Öztürk, Pegasus Airlines, for leadership
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 E22018Tom 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 Airways2004Joe 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. PleshakovGrigory 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
2025 : Anduril Industries — GRAND LAUREATE WINNER | Adaptive Engine Transition Program |  Airbus Racer High-Speed Compound Rotorcraft | Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon | Hermeus
2024 : Saab Gripen E | Nammo THOR-ER | Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider | X-62A VISTA | Western missile integration for Ukraine | Eren Ozmen, Sierra Nevada Corp., for leadership
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, BoeingKimberly 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 Onorato1999Eugene 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
2025 : Aviation Supply Chain Integrity Coalition — GRAND LAUREATE WINNER | Aerospace Maintenance Council | Embraer Aircraft Maintenance Services | Lufthansa Technik AeroShark | Tarmac Aerosave
2024 : AAR | Delta TechOps | GE Aerospace | Lufthansa Technik |SR Technics, Atlas Air and Kuehne+Nagel
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
2025 : SpaceX Starship — GRAND LAUREATE WINNER | Artemis Accords | Kourou Spaceport and CNES | Space Development Agency and York Space Systems | Varda Space
2024 : Firefly Aerospace and Millenium Space Systems – Victus Nox | Indian Space Research Organization Chandrayaan-3 | Lockheed Martin Osiris Rex | SpaceX Starlink | Mike Moses, Virgin Galactic, for leadership
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
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
2025 : Norm Augustine | Patrick Ky
2024 : Clay Lacy | Daniel S. Goldin
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
2025 : Larry Culp
2024 : Luís Carlos Affonso

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
2025 : CDT LT Landon Taylor Coker, United States Military Academy | Midshipman First Class Zachary Tyler Branam ,United States Naval Academy | 3/c Cadet Walter “David” Ulmer III, United States Coast Guard Academy | Cadet 1st Class Arthur Jackson Rounaghi, United States Air Force Academy
2024 : Cadet Lieutenant Gunar Daniels, United States Military Academy | MIDN First Class Dorian Williams, United States Naval Academy | 3/c, Co. 2026 Giselle Melinda Johnson, United States Coast Guard Academy | Cadet (First Class) Timothy Roy Smith United States Air Force Academy
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 | Chase Binkley, Cadet Captain, United States Military Academy | Shane Kravetz, Midshipman, United States Naval Academy | Andrew David "Drew" Phillips, Cadet First Class, United States Air Force 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