Outstanding Aviator Award Recipients
Each March, at the Annual Meeting, the Wings Club Foundation presents the Outstanding Aviator Award “to recognize airmen and air women for their contributions to aviation/or security and serve as leadership role models.” Upon its inception, the first recipients to be presented with this award were the Tuskegee Airmen in 2010.
2021-2031
2024 Colonel Bruce P. Crandall (US Army Ret.)
2023 Colonel Buz Carpenter (USAF Ret.) SR-71 Pilot
2022 Tammie Jo Shults
2010-2020
2020 Colonel Gail Seymour “Hal” Halvorsen (USAF Ret.) “Berlin Candy Bomber”
2019 Brigadier General Jeannie M. Leavitt
2018 Major General Patrick Henry Brady (US Army Ret.)
2017 Heather Penney
2016 Col. Edward T. Rock (USAF Ret.)
2015 Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann
2014 Robert A. “Bob” Hoover
2013 Patty Wagstaff
2012 Doolittle Raiders
2011 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
2010 Tuskegee Airmen