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Admiral Luis de Florez Flight Safety Award

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Admiral Luis de Florez Flight Safety Award

This award, first presented in 1966, recognized “outstanding individual contributions to aviation safety, through basic design, device or practice.”

A retired U.S. Navy admiral and a Foundation president in the mid-1950s, de Florez was influential in the development of early flight simulators. He received the 1943 Collier Trophy — one of the most prestigious awards for aeronautical achievement in the United States — for his work in training pilots and flight crews. De Florez established a trust to support the award that carries his name and to provide each recipient with $1,000. The award includes a hand-lettered citation.

This award was discontinued in 2011.

Admiral Luis de Florez Flight Safety Award

Recipients of the Admiral Luis de Florez Flight Safety Award

    • No award

    • 2009 No award

    • 2008 No award

    • 2007 William L. McNease and Gerald Pilj, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

    • 2006 J. Kenneth Higgins, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

    • 2005 Alan Klapmeier

    • 2004 Thomas J. Yager

    • 2003 Capt. Paul A. Woodburn

    • 2002 Scott Shappell, Ph.D., Civil Aerospace Medical Institute U.S. Federal Aviation Administration; Douglas Wiegmann, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

    • 2001 Capt. Warren Vanderburgh, American Airlines Flight Academy

    • 2000 Thomas Imrich, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

    • 1999 Ivan Efremovich Mashkivsky, Flight Safety Foundation International, Moscow

    • 1998 Donald Bateman, AlliedSignal

    • 1997 Capt. K. Scott Griffith, American Airlines; Edward D. Mendenhall, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.

    • 1996 No award

    • 1995 Capt. Chester L. Ekstrand, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group

    • 1994 No award

    • 1993 Richard Milton

    • 1992 John McCarthy, U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research

    • 1991 John J. Neligan, American Airlines

    • 1990 Peter L. Gallimore, Lester G. Lautman and Richard L. Sears, all with The Boeing Co.

    • 1989 Felix L. Pitts, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center

    • 1988 Richard G. Hill

    • 1987 Huey D. Carden

    • 1986 Sidney B. Pickles

    • 1985 Richard F. Chandler

    • 1984 Richard S. Bray

    • 1983 J.R. Sturgeon, U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment

    • 1982 Capt. John X. Stefanki, Air Line Pilots Association, International

    • 1981 Richard Gerald Snyder, Ph.D., University of Michigan

    • 1980 Gunnar Antvik (retired), Board of Civil Aviation, Sweden

    • 1979 David Johnson, U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment

    • 1978 J. Anderson Plumer, Lightning Technologies

    • 1977 Dr. T. Theodore Fujita, University of Chicago

    • 1976 Daniel F. Sowa, Northwest Airlines

    • 1975 C.D. (Don) Bateman, Sundstrand Data Control

    • 1974 Kenneth B. Olsen, American Airlines

    • 1973 No award

    • 1972 Dr. John T. Dailey, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

    • 1971 No award

    • 1970 Capt. Victor Hewes, Air Line Pilots Association, International

    • 1969 Douglas Moreton; S. Harry Robertson, AvSer

    • 1968 No award

    • 1967 Franklin W. Kolk, American Airlines; Don Mitchell, Piper Aircraft Corp.

    • 1966 George Cooper, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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