Couch, Col USAF 1991 Paul Metz, Northrop Corporation YF-23 ATF Prototype David L. Ferguson, Lockheed Corporation YF-22 ATF Prototype 1992 Daniel C. Brandenstein, CAPT USN Space Shuttle/Satellite Recovery 1993 Allan T. Reed, McDonnell Douglas T-45 High Angle of Attack and Corporation Flying Qualities & Spin Evaluation 1994 Christopher J. Yeo, British Aerospace Eurofighter 2000 Flight Test Peter Weger, Deutsche Aerospace Program 1995 John E. Cashman, The Boeing Company 777 Flight Test Program 1996 Erwin Danuwinata, IPTN Expansion and flight tests leading to FAA/JAA certification Ken Dyson & Richard G. Thomas, Tacit Blue Program (Retroactive 1982) Jon S. Beesley, USAF F-117 Combined Test Force, Harold C. Farley Lockheed, David L. Ferguson Lockheed & Thomas A. Morgenfeld Lockheed (Retroactive 1983) 1997 Douglas B. Shane, Scaled Composites V-Jet II and Vision Aire Vantage 1998 Gary Freeman, Gulfstream Aerospace G-V Certification Test Program 1999 Mike Melvill, Scaled Composites Proteus high-altitude multimission aircraft 2000 Jeremy Tracy, GKN Westland Helicopters 2001 Wg Cdr Rajiv Kothiyal, Indian AF 2002 Herb Moran Bell Helicopter, envelope expansion and aircraft definition of the AH-1Z helicopter. 2003 Thomas L. Macdonald, Bell-Boeing High Rate of Descent (HROD) testing for the V-22 Osprey 2004 Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne Test Team Mike Melvill Brian Binnie Peter Siebold 2005 Randy Neville, Boeing F-22 2006 Norman E. Howell, Boeing, C-17 2007 Jon S. Beesley, Lockheed Martin, F-35A and Bird of Prey Test Team (Retroactive from 1997) Rudy Haug, Boeing Doug Benjamin, Boeing Joe Felock, Boeing 2008 Terry E. Tomeny, Calspan Corporation Eclipse 2009 Peter Siebold, Scaled Composites 2010 Michael Carriker, Boeing 2011 Kevin Bredenbeck, Sikorsky Aircraft, X2 Demonstrator 2012 Markus Scherdel, Solar Impulse, HB-SIA 2013 Mark "Forger" Stucky, Scaled Composites Test Pilot for SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo 2014 AgustaWestland AW609 Tiltrotor Test Team Pietro Venanzi Dan Wells Paul Edwards 2015 Prospero Uybarreta, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, C Series and CRJ Series 2016 Scott Martin, Gulfstream Aerospace, GVII-G500/G600 2017 Charles Ellis, Bombardier Flight Test Center, Bombardier CSeries 2018 James Payne, Airbus Perlan Project 2019 Evan C. Thomas, Scaled Composites, LLC., Stratolaunch Aircraft 2020 Tom Carr, Garmin, Garmin Emergency Autoland (EAL) 2021 Donald Grove, Bell Textron, V-280 Demonstrator Program 2022 Benjamin Williamson, Sikorsky, A Lockheed Martin Company, S-70 Optionally Piloted Vehicle See also List of aviation awards References Aviation awards Awards established in 1958