The FAI Gold Air Medal was established in 1924 by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and was first awarded in 1925. This award and the Paul Tissander Diploma are the FAI's two highest awards. It is reserved for those who have contributed greatly to the development of aeronautics by their activities, work, achievements, initiative or devotion to the cause of aviation.
Winners Date Name Country1925Francesco de PinedoItaly1926Alan CobhamUnited Kingdom1927Charles LindberghUSA1928Bert HinklerAustralia1929Dieudonné CostesFrance1930Italo BalboItaly1931Hugo EckenerGermany1932Juan de la CiervaSpain1933Wiley PostUSA1934C. W. A. ScottUnited Kingdom1935not awarded 1936Jean MermozFrance1937Jean BattenUnited Kingdom1938not awarded1939not awarded1940not awarded1941not awarded1942not awarded1943not awarded1944not awarded1945not awarded1946Igor SikorskyUSA1947Chuck YeagerUSA1948not awarded1949not awarded1950Frank WhittleUnited Kingdom1951Edward P. WarnerUSA1952not awarded1953Jacqueline CochranUSA1954 James Doolittle USA 1955 Maurice Hurel France 1956 Peter Twiss United Kingdom 1957 David G. Simons USA 1958 Andrey Nikolaevich Tupolev USSR 1959 Pierre Satre France 1960Yuri Gagarin USSR 1961 Geoffrey De Havilland United Kingdom 1962 not awarded 1963 Jacqueline Auriol France 1964 Vladimir Kokkinaki USSR 1965 Robert L. Stephens USA 1966 Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev USSR 1967 Joseph A. Walker USA 1968 Sergey Ilyushin USSR 1969 José Luis Aresti AguirreSpain 1970 Dick Merrill USA 1971 Elgen Long USA 1972 Marina Popovich USSR 1973 Don Anderson Australia 1974 Aleksandr Vasilyevich Fedotov USSR 1975 Curtis Pitts USA 1976 Sholto Hamilton Georgeson New Zealand 1977 Michael Murphy (aviator) USA 1978 Hans Werner Grosse Federal Republic of Germany 1979 Paul Maccready USA 1980 Ann Welch United Kingdom 1981 Jean-Pierre Freiburghaus Switzerland 1982 Paul Poberezny USA 1983 Jan Mikula (engineer)Czechoslovakia 1984 J. R. D. Tata India 1985 Ralph Paul Alex USA 1986 Semyon Kharlamov USSR 1987 Henry Kremer United Kingdom 1988 August Christov Kabaktchiev Bulgaria 1989 George Alfred "Peter" Lloyd Australia 1990 Sabiha Gökcen Turkey 1991 Kyung O Kim South Korea 1992 Cenek Kepak Slovakia 1993 Olavi Rautio Finland 1994 Scott Crossfield USA 1995 Hanspeter Hirzel Switzerland 1996 Alexander Pimenoff Finland 1997 Attila Taçoy Turkey 1998 not awarded 1999 Bertrand Piccard Switzerland 1999 Brian Jones United Kingdom 2000 Eilif Ness Cyprus 2001 not awarded 2002 Steve Fossett USA 2003 not awarded 2004 Jon Johanson Australia 2005 Richard Meredith-Hardy United Kingdom 2006 Victor Smolin Russia 2007 Eugene Cernan USA 2008 Jiří Kobrle Czech Republic 2009 Barron Hilton USA 2010 David Hempleman-Adams United Kingdom 2011 John Dickenson (aviator) Australia 2012 Mikhail Mamistov Russia 2014 William Moyes Australia 2015Hans ÅkerstedtSweden2016not awarded2017not awarded2018not awarded2019Domina JalbertUSA2020Hermann Trimmel Austria2021not awarded2022not awarded2023not awarded2024Sebastian KawaPoland
See also
List of aviation awards
References
External links List of awards on FAI site