Flight Safety Foundation Admiral Luis de Florez Flight Safety Award

This award, presented since 1966, recognizes “outstanding individual contributions to aviation safety, through basic design, device or practice.”

A retired U.S. Navy admiral and a Foundation president in the mid-1950s, de Florez was influential in the development of early flight simulators. He received the 1943 Collier Trophy — one of the most prestigious awards for aeronautical achievement in the United States — for his work in training combat pilots and flight crews. De Florez established a trust to support the award that carries his name and to provide each recipient with $1,000. The award includes a handsome, wood-framed, hand-lettered citation.

Recipients of the Admiral Luis de Florez Flight Safety Award
2008	No award
2007	William L. McNease and Gerald Pilj, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
2006	J. Kenneth Higgins, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
2005	Alan Klapmeier
2004	Thomas J. Yager
2003	Capt. Paul A. Woodburn
2002	Scott Shappell, Ph.D., Civil Aerospace Medical Institute U.S. Federal Aviation Administration; Douglas Wiegmann, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
2001	Capt. Warren Vanderburgh, American Airlines Flight Academy
2000	Thomas Imrich, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
1999	Ivan Efremovich Mashkivsky, Flight Safety Foundation International, Moscow
1998	Donald Bateman, AlliedSignal
1997	Capt. K. Scott Griffith, American Airlines; Edward D. Mendenhall, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.
1996	No award
1995	Capt. Chester L. Ekstrand, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
1994	No award
1993	Richard Milton
1992	John McCarthy, U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research
1991	John J. Neligan, American Airlines
1990	Peter L. Gallimore, Lester G. Lautman and Richard L. Sears, all with The Boeing Co.
1989	Felix L. Pitts, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center
1988	Richard G. Hill
1987	Huey D. Carden
1986	Sidney B. Pickles
1985	Richard F. Chandler
1984	Richard S. Bray
1983	J.R. Sturgeon, U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment
1982	Capt. John X. Stefanki, Air Line Pilots Association, International
1981	Richard Gerald Snyder, Ph.D., University of Michigan
1980	Gunnar Antvik (retired), Board of Civil Aviation, Sweden
1979	David Johnson, U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment
1978	J. Anderson Plumer, Lightning Technologies
1977	Dr. T. Theodore Fujita, University of Chicago
1976	Daniel F. Sowa, Northwest Airlines
1975	C.D. (Don) Bateman, Sundstrand Data Control
1974	Kenneth B. Olsen, American Airlines
1973	No award
1972	Dr. John T. Dailey, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
1971	No award
1970	Capt. Victor Hewes, Air Line Pilots Association, International
1969	Douglas Moreton; S. Harry Robertson, AvSer
1968	No award
1967	Franklin W. Kolk, American Airlines; Don Mitchell, Piper Aircraft Corp.
1966	George Cooper, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration