Kelly Johnson Award
Kelly Johnson Award
This is an individual award that honors outstanding achievement in the field of Flight Test Engineering. The Kelly Johnson Award was first awarded in 1973 and is the society‘s oldest running award.
Kelly Johnson established the fabled Lockheed Skunk Works that was responsible for many designs and flight testing of aircraft such as the P-80, U-2, SR-71, F104, F-117, YF-22, and X-35.
Kelly Johnson Award Previous Recipients
Year | Recipient | Affiliation |
2022 | Giorgio Clementi | ITPS Canada |
2021 | James Sergeant | Lockheed Martin |
2020 | Kristen Finnegan | CH-53K LHD Shipboard Test Team |
2019 | Andrew Maack | F-35 Pax River ITF Chief Engineer |
2018 | Tim Dutton | Martin Aviation |
2017 | Vanessa L. Bond | USAF SEEK EAGLE |
2015 | Alan R. Lawless | Honda Aircraft |
2014 | Frank S. Brown | Air Force Test Center |
2013 | Reagan K. Woolf | Air Force Test Center |
2012 | David L. Vanhoy | USAF Test Pilot School |
2011 | Tim Jorris | USAF Test Pilot School |
2010 | John Minor | Hill Air Force Base |
2009 | Ken Edwards | QinetiQ |
2008 | Robert N. Burton | BAE Systems |
2007 | Robert G. Hoey | USAF Flt. Test Center |
2006 | Gary L. Aldrich | USAF Test Pilot School |
2005 | Johnny Armstrong | USAF Flt. Test Center |
2004 | Burt Rutan | Scaled Composites |
2003 | X-31 Vector | USN, Boeing, EADS, DLR, BWB, RJK |
2002 | Charles E. Webb | NAWC Aircraft Div. |
2001 | George Ka'iliwai III | USAF Test Pilot School |
2000 | Frank W. Burcham | NASA Dryden |
1999 | R. Dale Reed | NASA Dryden |
1998 | Anatoly G. Kruglov | Aviation Reg., Russia |
1997 | Richard Hildebrand | USAF Flt.Test Center |
1996 | Charles Van Norman | USAF Flt.Test Center |
1995 | Joseph L. Dunn | NAWC Aircraft Div. |
1994 | F-16 MATV Team | Lockheed, GE, USAF |
1993 | David E. Gibbings | Westland Helicopters |
1992 | Donald Wyrick | Lockheed |
1991 | Joint STARS | Grumman, USAF,US Army |
1990 | Roger C. Crane | USAF Flt.Test Center |
1989 | Kenneth W. Iliff | NASA Dryden |
1988 | Eugene J. Zehr | McDonnell Douglas |
1987 | William E. Jennings | Bell Helicopter |
1986 | Charles E. Adolph | USAF Flt.Test Center |
1985 | Chester B. Payne | Lockheed |
1984 | James H. Lincoln | Boeing |
1983 | Frederick Stoliker | USAF Flt.Test Center |
1982 | Frederick Schaefer | Grumman |
1981 | XV-15 Test Team | Bell Helicopter |
1980 | Donald D. Archer | Boeing |
1979 | Spirit 'TM' Team | Sikorsky |
1978 | Robert Samuelson | McDonnell Douglas |
1977 | Richard Abrams | Rockwell |
1976 | Harold Cheney | McDonnell Douglas |
1975 | Jack Strier | USAF |
1974 | Ronald Magnuson | Bell Helicopter |
1973 | Kelly Johnson | Lockheed |