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Distinguished Achievement Award
Each October, at the Annual Dinner, The Wings Club Distinguished Achievement Award is presented "FOR OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE FIELD OF AVIATION AND ASTRONAUTICS".

Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients

  2010-2012
2012 General John R. "Jack" Dailey (USMC Ret.)
2011 Norman R. Augustine
2010 T. Allan McArtor
   
  2000-2009
2009 Wolfgang Mayrhuber
2008 Steven F. Udvar-Hazy
2007 Mauricio Botelho
2006 Al Ueltschi
2005 Sir Richard Branson
2004 Gordon Bethune
2003 Brigadier General Charles "Chuck" E. Yeager
2002 Sir Ralph Robins
2001 Harry Stonecipher
2000 Jean Pierson
   
  1990-1999
1999 John H. Glenn, Jr.
1998 Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge
1997 U.S. Air Force
1996 Herbert D. Kelleher
1995 Cessna Citation Special Olympics Airlift
Corporate Angel Network
ORBIS International
Wings of Hope
1994 Robert L. Crandall
1993 Frederick W. Smith and the 95,000 Employees of Federal Express Corp.
1992

Aviation Test Pilots
    Roland P. “Bee” Beamont
    John J. Casey
    A. Scott Crossfield
    A. M. “Tex” Johnston
    Anthony W. “Tony” Levier
    Harry P. Schmidt
    Clifford L. “Cliff” Stout

1991 George H. W. Bush
1990 Armin O. Baltensweiler
   
  1980-1989
1989 Thomas H. Davis
1988 The Flight Safety Foundation
1987 Pioneer Trans-Atlantic European Passenger Carriers
1986 T.A. Wilson
1985 The National Air & Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution
1984 James M. Beggs
1983 John C. Bierwirth
Thomas V. Jones
David S. Lewis, Jr.
Sanford N. McDonnell
1982 Senator Barry M. Goldwater
1981 Olive Ann Beech
Harry B. Combs
Leroy R. Grumman
William T. Piper, Jr.
Dwane L. Wallace
1980 Sir Frank Whittle
Dr. Hans von Ohain
Sir Stanley G. Hooker
Jack S. Parker
Arthur E. Smith
   
  1975-1979
1979 William M. Allen
Donald W. Douglas, Sr.
Hall L. Hibbard
1978 William A. Patterson
Robert F. Six
Cyrus R. Smith
Juan T. Trippe
1977 Laurance S. Rockefeller
1976 Neil A. Armstrong
1975 General James H. Doolittle
     

 

 
   


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