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Aviation Week & Space Technology Distinguished Service Award

The Aviation Week & Space Technology Distinguished Service Award — the oldest of the Foundation’s awards — has been sponsored since 1949 by Aviation Week & Space Technology and is administered by the Foundation.

The award is presented every other year for “distinguished service in achieving safer utilization of aircraft.” It was the brainchild of Jerry Lederer, the founder of Flight Safety Foundation and a pioneer in aviation safety, who saw a need for an award to honor the people and organizations responsible for major advances in aviation safety.

Aviation Week & Space Technology Distinguished Service Award

Recipients of the Aviation Week & Space Technology Distinguished Service Award

    • 2013 H. E. Saif Mohammed Al Sawaidi, United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority

    • 2012 Jay Pardee, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

    • 2011 No award

    • 2010 No award

    • 2009 Civil Aviation Administration of China

    • 2008 Capt. Dave Carbaugh, The Boeing Co.

    • 2007 Jean Pinet, Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace

    • 2006 No award

    • 2005 John R. Hallinan, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Alaskan Region

    • 2004 John E. O’Brien, Air Line Pilots Association, International

    • 2003 Dr. Tony Kern, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

    • 2002 Capt. Akrivos Tsolakis, Hellenic Republic National Aviation Safety Board

    • 2001 Capt. Yun-Ling Lee, China Airlines

    • 2000 Capt. Daniel E. Maurino, International Civil Aviation Organization

    • 1999 Capt. Mike Holtom, British Airways

    • 1998 Ronald M. McGregor, U.S. Air Force Safety Center

    • 1997 Don Bateman, AlliedSignal Aerospace

    • 1996 Anthony J. Broderick, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

    • 1995 Capt. James C. Waugh (retired), Pan American World Airways

    • 1994 Robert L. Helmreich, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin; Dennis A. Nollen, Ph.D., DuPont Advanced Material Systems

    • 1993 William W. Melvin, Air Line Pilots Association, International

    • 1992 Ronald Ashford, U.K. Civil Aviation Authority; M. Craig Beard, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

    • 1991 Charles R. Higgins, The Boeing Co.

    • 1990 Tirey K. Vickers

    • 1989 Capt. Hidemaro Nagano, Japan Air Lines

    • 1988 Capt. L. Homer Mouden

    • 1987 John K. Lauber, U.S. National Transportation Safety Board

    • 1986 Harold D. Hoekstra (retired), U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

    • 1985 Capt. David A. Simmon, United Airlines

    • 1984 Paul R. Powers, Bell Helicopter Textron lnc.

    • 1983 Fredrick B. McIntosh (retired), National Business Aircraft Association

    • 1982 Walter S. Luffsey, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

    • 1981 Capt. B. Victor Hewes, Delta Air Lines

    • 1980 Richard Aarons, Business and Commercial Aviation

    • 1979 Charles Billings, M.D., U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center

    • 1978 W.P. Rollings, Bell Helicopter Textron

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

    • 1976 Joseph Tymczyszyn, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

    • 1975 George Wansbeek, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

    • 1974 General Aviation Manufacturers Association and its Safe Pilot Program

    • 1973 Ralph Nelson, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

    • 1972 Joseph M. Chase; Capt. Emil E. Glanz, Capt. Thomas Oakes and Capt. Charles R. Tennstedt, Eastern Air Lines

    • 1971 A. W. (Tony) LeVier; Charles O. Miller, Director, Bureau of Aviation Safety, U.S. National Transportation Safety Board

    • 1970 Air Transport Association; National Business Aircraft Association; Dr. Matthew Radnofsky, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Manned Space Center

    • 1969 Dr. Charles L. Elworth and Dr. Conrad L. Kraft, The Boeing Co.

    • 1968 Walter B. Horne, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Willard G. Plentl, Virginia State Division of Aeronautics

    • 1967 James Campbell and U.S. Federal Aviation Agency; Herbert Fisher, Port of New York Authority; Jerome Lederer, Flight Safety Foundation; Dr. Clifford Seitz, Grumman Aircraft; technical staff of Trans World Airlines

    • 1966 William A. Patterson, United Airlines; Bureau of Safety, U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board; Capt. J. D. Smith, United Airlines; Technical Staff of International Civil Aviation Organization

    • 1965 John Gibbs (posthumously), British European Airways; Ray D. Kelly, United Airlines; Transatlantic Air Traffic Controllers (U.S., British, Canadian); Frank White, Air Transport Association of America

    • 1964 Capt. John B. Clark, American Airlines, and Paul A. Soderlind, Northwest Airlines; Jack Eggspuehler, Ohio State University and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Foundation; U.S. Army Helicopter Primary School; P.B. Walker, U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment

    • 1963 Capt. Carl M. Christenson, United Airlines; personnel manning ocean station vessels; John J. Swearingen, U.S. Federal Aviation Agency Civil Aeromedical Research Institute

    • 1962 Maj. Gen. John D. Caldara, U.S. Air Force; Donald W. Douglas Sr.; Dr. John C. Lane; Capt. Sam P. Saint, American Airlines

    • 1961 Air Line Pilots Association; British European Airways; Dr. A. C. Bryan, Royal Canadian Air Force; Newton A. Lieurance, U.S. Weather Bureau

    • 1960 Bo Lundberg, Aeronautical Institute of Sweden; Richard Rhoed, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

    • 1959 J.B. Bartow; Henry Harrison, United Airlines; Dr. Walter Tye, U.K. Air Registration Board

    • 1958 A. Howard Hasbrook; Edwin A. Link; Otto E. Kirchner; University of Southern California; U.S. Coast Guard

    • 1957 Gen. E. P. Curtis, U.S. Air Force; George H. Tryon III

    • 1956 Melvin N. Gough; Arthur E. Jenks; William Littlewood; Dr. Edward P. Warner

    • 1955 Dr. Barry King, U.K. Civil Aviation Authority, Medical Division; Stanislaw Krzyczkowski, International Air Transport Association; Francis Moseley

    • 1954 Lt. Col. J. P. Stapp, U.S. Army; Technical Development and Evaluation Center, U.K. Civil Aviation Authority and Harvey Hansberry; United Airlines

    • 1953 M.G. Beard and Committee S-7 of the Society of Automotive Engineers; Dr. Ross A. McFarland; National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and I. Irving Pinkel

    • 1952 Capt. P.Q. Cooquyt; Directorate of Flight Safety Research, U.S. Air Force; John E. Lindberg Jr., Pan American World Airways; Republic Aviation Corp. and William I. Stieglitz; Sperry Gyroscope Co.

    • 1951 E. S. Calvert, U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment.; Capt. E. A. Cuttrell, American Airlines; Capt. John Gill, Eastern Air Lines; Dr. Ross Gunn

    • 1950 Capt. Robert Baker and crew, American Airlines; Capt. Ian R. Harvey and crew, British Overseas Airways Corp.; Pennsylvania Aeronautics Commission

    • 1949 American Airlines and United Airlines; Leonard M. Greene; Hugh De Haven