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Past Winners of the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy

 

1948

Dr. William F. Durand

1981

Dwayne L. Wallace

1949 Charles A. Lindbergh 1982

Dr. Willis M. Hawkins

1950

Grover C. Loening

1983

J. Leland Atwood

1951

Dr. Jerome Hunsaker

1984

David S. Lewis

1952

Gen. James Doolittle, USAF

1985

Harry B. Combs

1953

Carl Hinshaw

1986

Joseph F. Sutter

1954

Dr. Theodore von Karman

1987

Allen E. Paulson

1955

Dr. Hugh L. Dryden

1988

Sam B. Williams

1956

Dr. Edward P. Warner

1989

Thomas Jones

1957

Senator Stuart Symington

1990

Edwin I. Colodny

1958

Dr. John Francis Victory

1991

Benjamin A. Cosgrove

1959

William P. MacCracken, Jr.

1992

Senator Jake Garn

1960

Frederick C. Crawford

1993

Gerhard Neumann

1961

Senator A. S. Mike Monroney

1994

A. L. Ueltschi

1962

John Stack

1995

Russell W. Meyer, Jr.

1963

Donald W. Douglas, Sr.

1996

Frederick W. Smith

1964

Henry F. Guggenheim

1997

Charles H. Kaman

1965

Jerome Lederer

1998

Edward W. Stimpson

1966

Juan T. Trippe

1999

Delford M. Smith

1967

Igor I. Sikorksy

2000

Herbert D. Kelleher

1968

Senator Warren C. Magnuson

2001

Neil A. Armstrong

1969

William M. Allen

2002

Paul P Poberezny

1970

C. R. Smith

2003

Senator John Glenn

1971

Senator Howard W. Cannon

2004

Robert Crandall

1972

John H. Shaffer

2005

Edward "Pete" Aldridge

1971

Senator Barry M. Goldwater

2006

Norman Y. Mineta

1974

Dr. Richard T. Whitcomb

2007

Eugene Cernan

1975

Clarence “Kelly” Johnson

2008

Norman Augustine

1976

William A. Patterson

2009

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy

1977

Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, USAF (Ret.)

2010

Harrison Ford

1978

Senator Jennings Randolph

2011

Thomas Patten Stafford

1979

T. A. Wilson

1980

Olive Ann Beech