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FSF President’s Citation

The FSF President’s Citation was established in 1988 by the FSF Board of Governors to recognize individuals and groups for aviation safety accomplishments outside the criteria for other awards. The award honors those who have displayed “outstanding service on behalf of safety, whether it be valor, professionalism or service above and beyond normal expectations.” The President’s Citation is awarded at the discretion of the Foundation president.

FSF President’s Citation

Recipients of the FSF President’s Citation

    • 2017 Kenneth J. Hylander, FSF Board of Governors

    • 2016 Capt. Linda Orlady, Orlady Associates

    • 2016 William O, “Bill” McCabe, The McCabe Group

    • 2016 Capt. Ed Pooley, The Air Safety Consultancy

    • 2015 Paolo Pettinaroli, Fondazione 8 Ottobre 2001 (posthumous)

    • 2014 Capt. Kevin Hiatt, IATA

    • 2013 Chris Glaeser, IATA (ret)

    • 2012 William E. Chiles, “Target Zero” – Bristow Group’s Culture of Safety Team

    • 2011 Henry Gourdji, International Civil Aviation Organization

    • 2010 No award

    • 2009 Aviation Safety Unit, World Food Programme

    • 2008 Nicholas A. Sabatini, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration; Evgeny Nikolaevich Lobachev, Russian Federation Minister of Transport

    • 2007 Marty Grier, Bill Grimes, Brad Johnson and Bill McBride, FSF Ground Accident Prevention Program; Maimuna Taal, former DGCA of the Republic of Gambia; Peter Naz, DHL

    • 2006 Hans Almér, Saab Aircraft AB (retired); Susan M. Coughlin, Member, Board of Governors, Flight Safety Foundation; Capt. Alex de Silva, Singapore Airlines; Dmitry Kiva, General Designer, Antonov Design Bureau; Vladimir Kofman, Flight Safety Foundation International; Anatoly Kolisnyk, Chairman, SAA of Ukraine; Capt. Dan Maurino, International Civil Aviation Organization; Valery Shelkovnikov, Flight Safety Foundation International; James E. Terpstra, Jeppesen (retired); Edward R. Williams, The Metropolitan Aviation Group

    • 2005 Dmitry N. Tarasevich, Flight Safety Foundation International; Capt. Akrivos Tsolakis, Hellenic Air Accident Investigation & Aviation Safety Board; The Flight Crew, KLM CityHopper Flight KL 1636, February 16, 2002

    • 2004 Eddy Deraet, Noordzee Helikopters Vlaanderen; Hon. Carl W. Vogt, Fulbright & Jaworski; Capt. Yang Yuanyuan, General Administration of Civil Aviation of China; Capt. Osvaldo Oliveira, TAP Air Portugal

    • 2003 Reserve Col. Valery Gennadievitch Shalagin, Moscow M.L. Mil Helicopter Factory, Russia; Marshal Evgeny I. Shaposhnikov, Russian Federation; Thomas J. Yager, Langley Research Center, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

    • 2002 Arnold Barnett, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Yi Taek Shim, Korean Air

    • 2001 Elling Halvorson, Papillon Airways; Capt. Edward K. Miller; Kyle Olsen and Jay Pardee, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, and Paul Russell, The Boeing Co.; Michel Tremaud, Airbus Industrie

    • 2000 James Church, United Technologies–UTFlight; Gloria W. Heath; Earl L. Wiener, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Miami

    • 1999 Charles T. Henderson, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration; James G. O’Connor and The National Research Council Committee on Aircraft Certification Safety Management; Arslan Ruzmetov, Uzbekistan Airways

    • 1998 James S. O’Connor, Pratt & Whitney; Bernard Ziegler, Airbus Industrie

    • 1997 Patricia W. Andrews, Mobil Business Research Corp.; Edward M. Boothe, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration; Frank Burcham, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Capt. David C. Carbaugh, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group; William D. Forsythe, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group; C. Gordon Fullerton, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Mark R. Rosekind, Ph.D., U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center

    • 1996 Carroll W. Suggs, Petroleum Helicopters Inc.

    • 1995 Capt. J.D. Smith, United Airlines

    • 1994 Aerospace Human Factors Research Division, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center

    • 1993 J. Yoshiyuki Funatsu, All Nippon Airways; Valerii G. Shelkovnikov, Flight Safety Foundation–Commonwealth of Independent States

    • 1992 John V. Brennan, United States Aviation Insurance Group

    • 1991 Capt. Nagadi, Saudia; Ron Eland

    • 1990 No award

    • 1989 Capt. Al Haynes and United Airlines Flight 232 flight crew; Capt. Subhi N. Yousef and Kuwait Airways “Al-Jaberiya” flight crew

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