List of Louis Blériot medal winners

The Louis Blériot medal is an aviation honor awarded by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale

Fédération Aéronautique Internationale

The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale is the world governing body for air sports and aeronautics and astronautics world records. Its head office is in Lausanne, Switzerland. This includes man-carrying aerospace vehicles from balloons to spacecraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles...

(FAI), the international aviation record adjudicating body. The medal may be awarded up to three times every year to record setters in speed, altitude and distance categories in light aircraft. The award was established by 1936 in honor of Louis Blériot

Louis Blériot

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. In 1909 he completed the first flight across a large body of water in a heavier-than-air craft, when he crossed the English Channel. For this achievement, he received a prize of £1,000...

Award recipients

2007 not awarded
2006 not awarded
2005 Dick Rutan
Dick Rutan
Richard Glenn "Dick" Rutan is an aviator who piloted the Voyager aircraft around the world non-stop with co-pilot Jeana Yeager...

, distance, XCOR EZ-Rocket
XCOR EZ-Rocket
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2004 Robert L. Gibson
Robert L. Gibson
Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson is a retired Captain and Naval Aviator in the United States Navy and a retired NASA astronaut.-Personal:...

, speed over a closed course in a Cassutt IIM
Cassutt Special
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2003 Bruce Bohannon
2003 Bruce Bohannon
2002 Bruce Bohannon
2001 Bruce Bohannon
2001 Richard C. Keyt
2000 Hans Georg Schmid
1999 Peter Scheichenberger
1998 Jon M. Sharp, Sharp Nemesis
Sharp Nemesis
|- More Specifications :* Fuel capacity: 5 US gal* Stall speed: 90 Kias* G-Loading limits: +6, -4* Cabin height: 35 in...
1997 not awarded
1996 James A. Price
1996 Jon M. Sharp, Sharp Nemesis
1995 not awarded
1994 Dan E. Parisieu
1993 Jon M. Sharp, Sharp Nemesis
1992 Michael S. Arnold
1992 David W. Timms
1991 Peter Scheichenberger
1991 Robert L. Gibson
Robert L. Gibson
Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson is a retired Captain and Naval Aviator in the United States Navy and a retired NASA astronaut.-Personal:...

, altitude in horizontal flight
1991 Peter Urach
1990 not awarded
1989 Eric Scott Winton
1989 Richard J. Gritter
1989 Kirk D. Hanna
1988 Wilhelm Lischak
1988 Yves Duval
1987 Norman E. Howell
1986 Wilhelm Lischak
1985 John E. Saum
1984 F. Gary Hertzler
1984 Richard Flohr
1983 Phillip C. Fogg
1982 A.J. Smith
1981 Dick Rutan
Dick Rutan
Richard Glenn "Dick" Rutan is an aviator who piloted the Voyager aircraft around the world non-stop with co-pilot Jeana Yeager...
1980 Charles Andrews
1979 Gerald G. Mercer
1978 not awarded
1977 Oleg A. Boulyguine
1976 W.M. Pomeroy
1976 Rodney T. Nixon
1975 Edgar J. Lesher
1974 not awarded
1973 Edgar J. Lesher
1972 Roy Windover
1971 not awarded
1970 Edgar J. Lesher
1969 Hal Fishman
Hal Fishman
Hal Fishman was the longest-running news anchor in the history of American television, having served on-air for Los Angeles television stations continuously between 1960 and his death in 2007...
1969 Barry Schiff
1968 Donald C. Sinclair
1967 Edgar J. Lesher
1966 William C. Brodbeck
1966 Raymond Davy
1965 Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock
Jerrie Mock
Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock was the first woman to fly solo around the world. The trip ended April 17, 1964 and took 29 days, 21 stopovers and almost 22,860 miles...
1964 Adriano Mantelli
Adriano Mantelli
Adriano Mantelli was an Italian aircraft designer who designed the Alaparma Baldo.- Early life :In 1929 Mantelli competed in flying competitions with aircraft that were self designed and built...
1963 Raymond Davy
1962 Adriano Mantelli
1961 not awarded
1960 Raymond Davy
1959 not awarded
1958 not awarded
1957 Kaarl Henrik Juhani Heinonen
1956 Richard V. Ohm
1956 L. Stastny
1956 F. Novak
1955 Peder Ib Riborg Andersen
1954 Iginio Guagnellini
1953 William D. Thompson
1953 Iginio Guagnellini
1952 Max Conrad
Max Conrad
Maximilien "Max" Conrad, known as the "Flying Grandfather", was a record-setting aviator. In the 1950s and 1960s, he set nine official light plane world records, three of which still stand at the end of 2008. For his efforts, he was awarded the Louis Blériot medal in 1952 and the prestigious...
1951 Caro Bayley
1951 A. Rebillon
1950 John F. Mann
1950 R.R. Paine
1949 René Leduc
1949 William P. Odom
1949 Anna Bodriaguina
1948 not awarded
1947 not awarded
1946 not awarded
1945 not awarded
1944 not awarded
1943 not awarded
1942 not awarded
1940 not awarded
1939 not awarded
1938 André Japy
1938 Helmut Kalkstein
1938 Steve Wittman
Steve Wittman
Sylvester Joseph "Steve" Wittman was an air-racer and aircraft designer and builder.Wittman gained his pilot's license in 1924 in a Standard J-1 and built his first aircraft, the Harley powered "Hardly Abelson" later that same year.From 1925 to 1927 he had his own flying service, giving joyrides...
1937 not awarded
1936 Stanisław Skarżyński
1936 Maurice Arnoux
Maurice Arnoux
Lieutenant Maurice Arnoux was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. He returned to flying fighter planes during the early days of World War II.-References:...
1936 Furio Niclot Doglio
Furio Niclot Doglio
Furio Niclot Doglio, MOVM was an Italian test pilot and World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica. Doglio set nine world aviation records in the 1930s during his time as a test pilot. During the war, he claimed seven kills , flying FIAT G. 50s and Macchi C. 202s, establishing himself as...
1936 Mrs. Becker (France)

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