FSF-Boeing Aviation Safety Lifetime Achievement Award

The award, established by the Foundation and The Boeing Co. in 2002, recognizes an individual for his or her lifetime commitment and contribution to enhancing aviation safety.

Criteria for judging nominations include the following:

• Devoted efforts spanning two decades or more to enhance civil aviation safety and/or military aviation safety beyond the normal expectations of job assignments;
• The influence of the nominee’s contribution to enhancing aviation safety beyond the organization for which the nominee has worked;
• The influence of the contributions on multiple facets of aviation safety (e.g., operations, training, design, regulation);
• The international influence of the contributions;
• A general recognition of the nominee as having been highly committed to aviation safety throughout his or her career; and,
• The nominee’s commitment in active participation in activities, initiatives or dialogue that seek to promote aviation safety.

Nominations can be posthumous.