The Robert J. Collier Trophy is an annual

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award administered by the U.S. National Aeronautic Association (NAA), presented to those who have made "the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year." Robert J. Collier, publisher of '' Collier's Weekly'' magazine, was an

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pioneer and president of the Aero Club of America. In 1910, he commissioned Baltimore sculptor Ernest Wise Keyser to make the ''Aero Club of America Trophy''. First awarded in 1911 to Glenn H. Curtiss for his successful development of the hydro-aeroplane. Collier owned a

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biplane which he purchased in 1911. Collier presented his namesake trophy several times before his death in 1918; after his

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service. In 1922, when the Aero Club dissolved, the award was taken over by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) and it was unofficially renamed the Robert J. Collier Trophy, which became official in 1944. The award is presented once a year by the NAA president, with the trophy on permanent display at the U.S. National Air and Space Museum. As such, the trophy was in the custody of its 1969 co-recipient

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during his directorship of the museum. The trophy was stolen briefly in 1978, but was recovered. The thieves left it at Fort Foote park and it was recovered 26 hours from the time it went missing.

Recipients

* 1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss, for successful development of the hydro-aeroplane."The Curtiss Company."
''US Centennial of Flight Commemoration,'' 2003. Retrieved: January 28, 2011. The first award. * 1912 – Glenn H. Curtiss, for the invention of the single-pontoon seaplane and development of the flying boat. * 1913 – Orville Wright, for development of his

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. * 1914 – Elmer Sperry and Lawrence Sperry, for the invention of gyroscopic control. * 1915 –

W. Starling Burgess William Starling Burgess (December 25, 1878 – March 19, 1947) was an American yacht designer, aviation pioneer, and naval architect. He was awarded the highest prize in aviation, the Collier Trophy in 1915, just two years after Orville Wright w ...

, for the Burgess-Dunne BD series of semi-flying wing seaplanes. * 1916 – Elmer Sperry and Lawrence Sperry for the invention of a drift indicator * 1917–1920 – No trophy awarded due to the war * 1921 – Grover Loening, for development of the Loening Flying Yacht. * 1922 – United States Air Mail Service, for the first transcontinental air mail route without a single fatal accident. * 1923 – United States Air Mail Service, for the first transcontinental air mail route involving night flight. * 1924 –

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, for first aerial flight around the world. * 1925 – Sylvanus Albert Reed, for the metal propeller. * 1926 – Major Edward L. Hoffman of the

for the development of a practical parachute. * 1927 –

Charles L. Lawrance Charles Lanier Lawrance (September 30, 1882 – June 24, 1950) was an American aeronautical engineer and an early proponent of air-cooled aircraft engines. Early life Lawrance was born on September 30, 1882 in Lenox, Massachusetts, the son of Fr ...

, for the development of the air-cooled aircraft

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. * 1928 – Aeronautics branch of the

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for development of airways and navigation facilities. * 1929 – National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), for design of the NACA cowling for radial air-cooled engines. 1930 Collier Trophy

* 1930 – Harold Frederick Pitcairn and associates for development of the autogyro. * 1931 – Packard Motor Car Co. for the design/development of the first, practical diesel aircraft engine, the DR-980 radial engine. * 1932 – Glenn L. Martin for the design of the Martin B-10 (XB-907) bomber. * 1933 – Frank W. Caldwell of Hamilton Standard for the hydraulically controllable propeller. * 1934 – Captain A. F. Hegenberger

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for the first

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landing system. * 1935 – Donald W. Douglas and his technical and production personnel for the outstanding twin-engine transport airliner. * 1936 – Pan American Airways for establishment of a transpacific airline and the successful execution of extended overwater navigation in regular operations. * 1937 – Army Air Corps for the design and development of the

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. * 1938 –

Howard Hughes Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, record-setting pilot, engineer, film producer, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and richest people in t ...

and his associates for breaking the record time by flying around the world in 91 hours and 14 minutes. * 1939 –

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s of the US safety record, with special recognition to Walter Boothby, Randolph Lovelace, and Harry Armstrong. * 1940 – Dr. Sanford A. Moss and the Army Air Corps for development of the turbo-supercharger. * 1941 – Army Air Corps and the

s of the US for pioneering worldwide air transportation vital to immediate defense. * 1942 – General Henry Arnold for his "organization and leadership of the Army Air Forces throughout the world." * 1943 – Captain Luis de Florez,

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for his contribution to the safe and rapid training of combat pilots and crews. * 1944 – Carl Spaatz "for demonstrating the air power concept through employment of American aviation in the war against Germany." * 1945 – Luis W. Alvarez for the

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(GCA) which allowed radar operators to guide pilots to a safe landing in all weather conditions. * 1946 – Lewis A. Rodert of NACA, for the design and development of an aircraft anti-icing system. * 1947 – Lawrence Bell, John Stack, Chuck Yeager shared the award for their work on the

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, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier. * 1948 – The Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics for developing an

air traffic control Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airsp ...

system. * 1949 – William Lear for the development of the F-5 automatic pilot and automatic approach control coupler system. * 1950 – The Helicopter Industry, the Military Services, and the Coast Guard – for development and use of rotary-wing aircraft for air rescue operations. * 1951 – John Stack for the NACA Langley transonic wind tunnel. * 1952 –

Leonard S. Hobbs Leonard S. (Luke) Hobbs (1896–1977) was an American aeronautical engineer who started in 1920 with the Army Air Service at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio and later worked for Stromberg Motor Devices Corporation. He was born in Carbon County, Wyo ...

of United Aircraft Corp., for the design, development, and production of the Pratt & Whitney J57 jet engine. * 1953 – James H. Kindelberger for

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's F-100 and Edward H. Heinemann for

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aircraft carrier based F4D. * 1954 – Richard T. Whitcomb for his discovery of the ''

area rule The Whitcomb area rule, named after NACA engineer Richard Whitcomb and also called the transonic area rule, is a design procedure used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic speeds which occur between about Mach 0.75 and 1.2. For superson ...

'', a design method for supersonic aircraft. * 1955 –

Boeing The Boeing Company () is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and ...

William M. Allen William McPherson Allen (September 1, 1900 – October 28, 1985) was an American businessman in the aviation industry who served as the President of Boeing from 1945 to 1968. Life and career Born in Lolo, Montana, he attended the University of M ...

and General Nathan F. Twining USAF for the development, production, and operation of the B-52. * 1956 – Charles J. McCarthy of Chance-Vaught Aircraft and Vice Admiral

James S. Russell James Sargent Russell (March 22, 1903 – April 14, 1996) was an admiral in the United States Navy. Biography Russell was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of noted architect Ambrose J. Russell and Loella Janet (Sargent) Russell. He attended ...

U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics for the F-8U Crusader the first operational aircraft capable of speeds exceeding . * 1957 – Edward P. Curtis for "Aviation Facilities Planning," the long-range planning addressing problems with aircraft, air space, and facilities. * 1958 – Clarence "Kelly" Johnson of Lockheed

Skunk Works Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, beginning with the P-38 Lightning in ...

, and Gerhard Neumann and Neil Burgess of GE, for leadership in the development of the F-104 Starfighter and its J79 engine. * 1959 –

US Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Sig ...

, Convair Division of General Dynamics, and Space Technology Laboratories for the development of the

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missile * 1960 – Vice Adm William F Raborn for directing the creation of the Polaris fleet ballistic missile system. * 1961 –

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Aviation with Scott Crossfield, Joseph A. Walker, Robert Michael White and Forrest S. Petersen, X-15 test pilots. * 1962 – Mercury Seven, group of first seven astronauts. * 1963 – Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, for his leadership at Lockheed's Skunk Works in the development of the

A-11 A11, A 11 or A-11 may refer to: Military * Aero A.11, a Czechoslovakian bomber produced before World War II * Consolidated A-11, an attack version of the Consolidated P-30 fighter plane of the 1930s * HMS ''A11'', an A-class submarine of the Roy ...

Mach 3 aircraft. * 1964 – Curtis LeMay "for development of high performance aircraft, missiles and space systems." * 1965 – James E. Webb and Hugh L. Dryden for the

Project Gemini Project Gemini () was NASA's second human spaceflight program. Conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, Gemini started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. The Gemini spacecraft carried a two-astronaut crew. Ten Gemini crews and 16 individual ...

. * 1966 – James McDonnell for development work in aeronautics and astronautics, specifically on the F-4 Phantom and

space vehicles. * 1967 – Lawrence "Pat" Hyland of Hughes Aircraft's Surveyor program for placing the eyes, ears & hand of the United States on the Moon. * 1968 – Apollo 8 crew: Col. Frank Borman, USAF; Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr., USN; Lt. Col. William A. Anders, USAF for the first lunar orbit. * 1969 –

Apollo 11 Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, ...

crew: NEIL A. ARMSTRONG, COL. Edwin E. AldrinJR., USAF; COL.

, USAF for the first landing of man on the surface of the Moon, July 20, 1969. * 1970 – The Boeing Company for their introduction of the Boeing 747. * 1971 – David Scott, James Irwin, Alfred Worden, and Robert Gilruth of the

Apollo 15 Apollo 15 (July 26August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program and the fourth to land on the Moon. It was the first J mission, with a longer stay on the Moon and a greater focus on science than ear ...

mission. * 1972 – The Officers and Men of the 7th Air Force and 8th Air Force of the

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and Task Force 77 of the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

for Operation Linebacker II. * 1973 –

William C. Schneider William Charles Schneider () served in the United States Naval Reserve 1942–1946 as an Aviation Machinist's Mate, 1st Class Petty Officer. He joined NASA in June 1963 and served as the Gemini mission director for seven of the ten piloted Gemini ...

and crews of the Skylab program * 1974 – John F. Clark of NASA and Daniel J. Fink of GE, representing NASA's Earth Resources Technology Satellite Program,

LANDSAT The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program. On 23 July 1972, the Earth Resources Technology Satellite was launched. This was eventually renamed to La ...

for mankind's management of the Earth's resources and with recognition to Hughes Aircraft Company and RCA. * 1975 –

David S. Lewis, Jr. David Sloan Lewis, Jr. (July 6, 1917 – December 15, 2003) was an aeronautical engineer who led aerospace and defense giant General Dynamics for 14 years. Early life David Lewis was born in 1917, in North Augusta, South Carolina. As a child, ...

of General Dynamics Corporation and the F-16 Air Force Industry Team. * 1976 - USAF and

Rockwell International Corporation Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products. R ...

for the highly successful design, development, management, and flight test of the B-1 strategic aircraft system. * 1977 -

Robert J. Dixon General Robert James Dixon, USAF (April 9, 1920 – March 21, 2003) was a United States Air Force four-star general and Command Pilot who served as Commander, Tactical Air Command (COMTAC) from 1973 to 1978. He also served simultaneously as comma ...

for his work on Red Flag. * 1978 - Sam B. Williams for development of the small, high-efficiency

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. * 1979 - Paul MacCready for the MacCready Gossamer Albatross piloted by Bryan Allen made the first man-powered flight across the English Channel. * 1980 -

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representing the

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team's fly-by of Saturn. * 1981 -

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Rockwell International Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products. R ...

, Martin Marietta, and

Thiokol Thiokol (variously Thiokol Chemical Corporation(/Company), Morton Thiokol Inc., Cordant Technologies Inc., Thiokol Propulsion, AIC Group, ATK Thiokol, ATK Launch Systems Group; finally Orbital ATK before becoming part of Northrop Grumman) was ...

for the development of manned reusable spacecraft noting astronauts

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, Robert Crippen, Joe Engle and Richard Truly. * 1982 - Thornton "T" Arnold Wilson and The Boeing Company for the

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and the

767 767 may refer to: * Boeing 767, a jet airliner * 767 (number) * AD 767 Year 767 ( DCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 767th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Do ...

. * 1983 -

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and Hughes Aircraft Helicopters for advanced weapons systems for the

AH-64A Apache The Boeing AH-64 Apache () is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night visi ...

. * 1984 - Bruce McCandless and Charles E. Whitsett of

and Walter W. Bollendonk of Martin Marietta for their work on satellite rescue and repair. * 1985 - Russell W Meyer and

Cessna Cessna () is an American brand of general aviation aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Originally, it was a brand of the Cessna Aircraft Company, an American general aviation aircraft manufacturing ...

Aircraft for the outstanding safety record of the Cessna Citation aircraft. * 1986 - Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager, Burt Rutan and the team of the first non-stop unrefueled

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of the Rutan Voyager. * 1987 - NASA Lewis Research Center and the NASA/industry advanced turboprop team for their work in new

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technologies. * 1988 - Rear Admiral Richard H. Truly U.S. Navy for the successful return of America to space after the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster. * 1989 -

Ben Rich Ben Rich may refer to: * Ben Rich (engineer) Benjamin Robert Rich (June 18, 1925 – January 5, 1995) was an American engineer and the second Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works from 1975 to 1991, succeeding its founder, Kelly Johnson. Regard ...

of Lockheed and USAF team for the first stealth aircraft, the F-117. * 1990 - Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey team for the first large tiltrotor aircraft.Maisel, Martin D., Demo J. Giulianetti and Daniel C. Dugan
NASA SP-2000-4517, "The History of the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft: From Concept to Flight" (PDF)
p155 ''

'', 2000. Accessed: 17 March 2012. * 1991 - The

Northrop Corporation Northrop Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its 1994 merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman. The company is known for its development of the flying wing design, most successfully the B-2 Sp ...

, the Industry Team and the

for the

Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying ...

. * 1992 -

Naval Research Laboratory The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. It was founded in 1923 and conducts basic scientific research, applied research, technologic ...

, Aerospace Corporation,

, and IBM Federal Systems Company for

Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite ...

(GPS). * 1993 - The Hubble Space Telescope Recovery Team for the recovery and repair of the

Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most vers ...

. * 1994 -

McDonnell Douglas McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor, formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. Between then and its own merger with Boeing in 1997, it ...

, and US Army for developing and producing the C-17 Globemaster III. * 1995 - Boeing Commercial Airplanes for producing the Boeing 777. * 1996 - Cessna Aircraft Company for producing the Citation X the US's first commercial aircraft to cruise at .92 Mach. * 1997 - Gulfstream Aerospace for producing the ultra-long range business jet the

Gulfstream V The Gulfstream V (Model GV, pronounced "G-five") is a long-range, large business jet aircraft produced by Gulfstream Aerospace, derived from the previous Gulfstream IV. It flies up to , up to and has a range. It typically accommodates four c ...

. * 1998 -

Lockheed Martin The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology corporation with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It ...

GE Aircraft Engines GE Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric, is headquartered in Evendale, Ohio, outside Cincinnati. GE Aviation is among the top aircraft engine suppliers, and offers engines for the majority of commercial aircraft. GE Aviation is part of the ...

, Air Combat Command, and

Defense Intelligence Agency The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an intelligence agency and combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense, specializing in defense and military intelligence. A component of the Department of Defense (DoD) and the ...

for the U-2S/ER-2 high altitude, all-weather, multi-functional data collection aircraft. * 1999 -

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. With 90,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military tech ...

, Raytheon Technologies, and

for the

F/A-18E/F The Boeing F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet are twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole fighter aircraft variants based on the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. The F/A-18E single-seat and F/A-18F tandem-seat variants are larger and more adv ...

multi-mission strike fighter aircraft. * 2000 -

, Rolls-Royce, Raytheon, L-3 Communications,

, and

DARPA The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the A ...

for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk. * 2001 - Pratt and Whitney,

, Rolls-Royce,

BAE Systems BAE Systems plc (BAE) is a British multinational arms, security, and aerospace company based in London, England. It is the largest defence contractor in Europe, and ranked the seventh-largest in the world based on applicable 2021 revenue ...

and the

Joint Strike Fighter program Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a development and acquisition program intended to replace a wide range of existing fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft for the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlan ...

Office for LiftFan Propulsion System. * 2002 - Sikorsky Aircraft and the S-92 team, led by Nicholas Lappos. * 2003 - Gulfstream Aerospace for the development of the

G550 The Gulfstream G550 is a business jet aircraft produced by General Dynamics' Gulfstream Aerospace unit in Savannah, Georgia, US. The certification designation is GV-SP. A version with reduced fuel capacity was marketed as the G500. Gulfstrea ...

, the first civil aircraft to include an

enhanced vision system An enhanced flight vision system (EFVS, sometimes EVS) is an airborne system which provides an image of the scene and displays it to the pilot, in order to provide an image in which the scene and objects in it can be better detected. In other wo ...

as standard equipment. * 2004 - Burt Rutan,

Paul Allen Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American business magnate, computer programmer, researcher, investor, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, whic ...

, Doug Shane, Mike Melvill, Brian Binnie, and the

SpaceShipOne SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 3,000 ft/s (900 m/s, 3240 km/h), using a hybrid rocket motor. The design features a unique " feathering ...

team for the first privately designed, funded, built, and flown commercial manned space-launch vehicle. * 2005 - Eclipse Aviation for producing the Eclipse 500, the world's first very light jet. * 2006 -

, Raytheon, and Pratt and Whitney for producing the F-22 Raptor. * 2007 - Automatic Dependent Surveillance-broadcast ( ADS-B) team that includes

AOPA The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is a Frederick, Maryland-based American non-profit political organization that advocates for general aviation. AOPA's membership consists mainly of general aviation pilots in the United State ...

ALPA Alpa was formerly a Swiss camera design company and manufacturer of 35 mm SLR cameras. The current owners bought the company name after bankruptcy of the original company and the company exists today as a designer and manufacturer of high-en ...

CAA CAA may refer to: Law * Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 of India ** Protests regarding the Citizenship (Amendment) Act * Copyright assignment agreement, to transfer copyright to another party * Clean Air Act, United States law to reduce air ...

ERAU Erau is an Indonesian biennial cultural festival, taking place in the city of Tenggarong, Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan. The word ''Erau'' is derived from the Kutai word ''eroh'', meaning crowded, noisy, joyful. Legend of Erau The leg ...

, FAA,

ITT ITT may refer to: Communication * Infantry-Tank Telephone, a device allowing infantrymen to speak to the occupants of armoured vehicles. Mathematics *Intuitionistic type theory, other name of Martin-Löf Type Theory *Intensional type theory B ...

MITRE The mitre (Commonwealth English) (; Greek: μίτρα, "headband" or "turban") or miter (American English; see spelling differences), is a type of headgear now known as the traditional, ceremonial headdress of bishops and certain abbots in ...

, UPS, and

ACSS ACSS may refer to: * Academy of Social Sciences, the UK's national academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners in the social sciences * Afro Celt Sound System, a musical group which fuses modern dance rhythms with traditional Irish (C ...

for supporting NextGen. * 2008 - The

Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) The Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) is a US aviation safety partnership between regulators, manufacturers, operators and professional unions, research groups, international organizations to further enhance safety. It was founded in 1997 ...

for reducing commercial scheduled airline fatalities. * 2009 - The

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest Modular design, modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos ( ...

team including

, Draper Laboratory,

Honeywell Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance ma ...

United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance (ULA), legally United Launch Alliance, LLC, is an American spacecraft launch service provider that manufactures and operates a number of rocket vehicles that are capable of launching spacecraft into orbits around Earth, a ...

, United Technologies for the world's largest spacecraft. * 2010 - The Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.

Sikorsky X2 The Sikorsky X2 is an experimental high-speed compound helicopter with coaxial rotors, developed by Sikorsky Aircraft, that made its first flight in 2008 and was officially retired in 2011. Design and development Sikorsky developed the X2 heli ...

Technology Demonstrator team for revolutionary helicopter development. * 2011 - The Boeing Company for designing, building, delivering, and supporting the

787 Dreamliner The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American wide-body jet airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After dropping its unconventional Sonic Cruiser project, Boeing announced the conventional 7E7 on January 29, 2003, ...

. * 2012 -

/ JPL Mars Science Laboratory/

Curiosity Curiosity (from Latin '' cūriōsitās'', from ''cūriōsus'' "careful, diligent, curious", akin to ''cura'' "care") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in human ...

project team for their successful Mars mission. * 2013 -

/ U.S. Navy/Industry team for designing, building, and demonstrating the X-47B; and for the aircraft's ability to autonomously operate from and perform arrested landings upon an aircraft carrier. * 2014 - Gulfstream Aerospace for producing the G650. * 2015 - The NASA- JPL Dawn Mission team for orbiting and exploring protoplanet Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres. * 2016 - The

Blue Origin Blue Origin, LLC is an American private spaceflight, privately funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Am ...

team for demonstrating rocket booster reusability with the New Shepard human spaceflight vehicle. * 2017 -

Cirrus Aircraft The Cirrus Design Corporation, doing business as Cirrus Aircraft (formally Cirrus Design), is an aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1984 by Alan and Dale Klapmeier to produce the VK-30 kit aircraft. The company is owned by a subsidia ...

for designing, certifying, and entering-into-service the SF50 Vision, the first single-engine personal jet; and for their inclusion of the

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(CAPS) on the aircraft. * 2018 - The Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS) team, which includes the Air Force Research Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, the F-35 Joint Program Office, and NASA for lifesaving technology. * 2019 - The USAF-Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Team for developing and employing the world's only reusable, autonomous spaceplane. * 2020 - Garmin for designing, developing, and fielding Garmin Autoland – the world's first certified autonomous system that activates during an emergency to safely control and land an aircraft without human intervention. * 2021 - The

/ JPL/'' Ingenuity'' team for the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet, thereby opening the skies of

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and other worlds for future scientific discovery and exploration.

Gallery

File:HoffmanCollierTrophyfromPresCoolidge.jpg, 1926 Collier Trophy President

Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer from New England who climbed up the ladder of Ma ...

presented to Edward L. Hoffman for the modern freefall parachute File:1927 Collier Trophy presented by President Coolidge to Charles Lawrance (cropped).jpg, 1927 Collier Trophy President Coolidge presented to

Charles Lawrance Charles Lanier Lawrance (September 30, 1882 – June 24, 1950) was an American aeronautical engineer and an early proponent of air-cooled aircraft engines. Early life Lawrance was born on September 30, 1882 in Lenox, Massachusetts, the son of Fr ...

for the air-cooled aircraft

File:Harold Frederick Pitcairn portrait in 1930 with the Collier Trophy.jpg, 1930 Collier Trophy recipient Harold Frederick Pitcairn for the autogyro File:1933 Collier Trophy President Roosevelt congratulates Frank W. Caldwell.jpg, 1933 Collier Trophy President Roosevelt congratulates Frank W. Caldwell of Hamilton Standard for the controllable-pitch propeller File:1939 Collier Trophy Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby, William Randolph Lovelace II, and Harry George Armstrong.jpg, 1939 Collier Trophy President Roosevelt congratulates US

airline An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in wh ...

s Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby, William Randolph Lovelace II, and

Harry George Armstrong Harry George Armstrong (February 17, 1899 – February 5, 1983) was a major general in the United States Air Force, a physician, and an airman. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of aviation medicine. The "Armstrong limit", the alti ...

File:Lew Rodert accepting the Collier Trophy from President Harry S Truman in December 1947.jpg, 1946 Collier Trophy President Truman congratulates Lewis A. Rodert for the thermal aircraft

anti-icing Deicing is the process of removing snow, ice or frost from a surface. Anti-icing is the application of chemicals that not only deice but also remain on a surface and continue to delay the reformation of ice for a certain period of time, or prev ...

File:1951CollierTrophy Truman n John Stack.jpg, 1952 Collier Trophy President Truman congratulates John Stack for the Langley transonic wind tunnel File:Vice President Nixon awards 1958 Collier Trophy.jpg, 1958 Collier Trophy with (L to R) Walter W. Irwin, Howard C. Johnson, US VP Nixon, Gerhard Neumann, Neil Burgess, Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson File:1966CollierTrophyJames Smith McDonnell.jpg, 1966 Collier Trophy with James Smith McDonnell Jr. founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation for the F-4 Phantom and

File:Jsc2011e075769 orig.jpg, 1973 Collier Trophy VP Ford congratulates

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Program Director

File:1992 CollierTrophyGPS.jpg, 1992 Collier Trophy for the Global Positioning System File:2011 Collier Trophy Recipient, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and Collier Selection Committee.jpg, 2011 Collier Trophy presented to The Boeing Company for the

File:2014 Collier Trophy Presentation, Northrop Grumman X-47B.JPG, 2013 Collier Trophy presented to

/ U.S. Navy for the X-47B File:2015 Collier Trophy Presentation, Gulfstream G-650.JPG, 2014 Collier Trophy presented to

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for the G650

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External links

''One Hundred Years of the Collier Trophy''
"The Oscar of

Aviation Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes airplane, fixed-wing and helicopter, rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as aerostat, lighter- ...

"-- Dick Rutan
The Collier Trophy
– contains listing of the winners up to 2006

October 10, 1963 - President John F. Kennedy remarks upon presenting the Collier Trophy to the Mercury Seven * ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOLe6RbomgA787 Dreamliner joins proud legacy of Boeing Collier Trophy wins Aviation awards

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