The Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award, named in honor of

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Tony LeVier, was established by the Flight Test Safety Committee to pay recognition to people who have significantly contributed to the safety of flight test operations. This annual award, which can be presented to an individual or team is presented by Gentex Corporation at the Society of Experimental Test Pilots at their annual awards banquet. To be considered for the award, nominees must have contributed in a significant way to the flight test safety community over a period of time. The nominee must have made a singular safety achievement involved in the saving of human life, a flight test program or test aircraft, and may be nominated only where safety rules were not broken.

Past recipients

Recipients of the SETP Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award include: *1999 – Eric E. Fiore,

Bombardier Aerospace Bombardier Aviation, a division of Bombardier Inc., is headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada. The company currently produces the Global and Challenger series of business jets. At its peak, Bombardier operated manufacturing plants in 27 c ...

*2000 – Rodrigo J. Huete, FAA *2001 – David Houle, Former President of SFTE *2002 – Bruce A. Peterson *2003 – Auto ACAS Team *2004 – LCDR William Patton, Aviation Safety Officer and Program Manager and Mr. Thomas Roberts, Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Safety Manager, Naval Test Wing Atlantic (NTWL) Safety Office *2005 – Ralph Mohr, The Boeing Company *2006 - Terry White *2007 - John E. Cashman *2008 - Flight Test Safety Database Team: Barton Henwood,

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/ DFRC; Rodrigo Huete, FAA (Ret); John Hed, FAA; Greg Lewis,

National Test Pilot School The National Test Pilot School (NTPS) is the only civilian test-pilot school in the United States, located in Mojave, California. It is organized as a not-for-profit educational institute under California state law and is governed by a board o ...

*2009 - Jerry “Mac” McCawley,

Lockheed Martin The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American Arms industry, defense and aerospace manufacturer with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta on March 15, 1995. It is headquartered in North ...

*2010 - Dave Downey *2011 - Thomas Roberts *2012 - The

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Company 787 Flight Test Team: Mike Carriker, Randy Neville, Jennifer-Ellen Gessler;

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787 Flight Test Team: Eugene Arnold and John Hed *2013 - Art Tomassetti *2014 - Terry Lutz,

Airbus Airbus SE ( ; ; ; ) is a Pan-European aerospace corporation. The company's primary business is the design and manufacturing of commercial aircraft but it also has separate Airbus Defence and Space, defence and space and Airbus Helicopters, he ...

*2015 - Larry Flynn,

Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is an American aircraft company and a subsidiary of General Dynamics. Gulfstream designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and services business jet aircraft. Gulfstream has produced more than 2,000 aircraft sinc ...

*2016 - Warren A. Hansen,

Textron Aviation Textron Aviation Inc. is the general aviation business unit of the conglomerate Textron that was formed in March 2014 following the acquisition of Beech Holdings which included the Beechcraft and Hawker Aircraft businesses. The new business uni ...

*2017 - Mark Skoog, NASA

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*2018 - Terrance Pearce, Bombardier Aerospace *2019 - Barbara Gordon, U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and LT Mark Hargrove, USN *2020 - Darren McDonald, The Boeing Company *2021 - Ben Luther, Nova Systems *2022 - Giorgio Clementi, ITPS Canada *2023 - Jonathan Lindsey & Michael Remaly, The Boeing Company *2024 - MSgt Joshua Thorn, USAF, TSgt Christopher Schiller, USAF, Matthew Toppin, MTSI

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