Outstanding Aviator Award
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
Source: the cycle recorded on this listing. Confirm dates with the funder.
Overview
Award Type: Recognition Award (not a grant/funding opportunity)
Award Statement: "To recognize airmen and air women for their contributions to aviation/or security and serve as leadership role models."
Presentation Schedule: Presented annually each March at the Wings Club Foundation's Annual Meeting
Recent Recipients:
- 2025: Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger
- 2024: Colonel Bruce P. Crandall (US Army Ret.)
- 2023: Colonel Buz Carpenter (USAF Ret.), SR-71 Pilot
- 2022: Tammie Jo Shults
- 2020: Colonel Gail Seymour "Hal" Halvorsen (USAF Ret.), "Berlin Candy Bomber"
- 2019: Brigadier General Jeannie M. Leavitt
- 2018: Major General Patrick Henry Brady (US Army Ret.)
- 2017: Heather Penney
- 2016: Col. Edward T. Rock (USAF Ret.)
- 2015: Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann
- 2014: Robert A. "Bob" Hoover
- 2013: Patty Wagstaff
- 2012: Doolittle Raiders
- 2011: Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
- 2010: Tuskegee Airmen (inaugural recipients)
Inception: The award was first given in 2010
Contact:
- Phone: +1 212 867 1770
- Email: info@wingsclub.org
- Address: 200 Park Avenue, East Mezzanine, Suite 11, New York, NY 10166
Note: This is a recognition award, not a financial grant or scholarship.
What The Wings Club Foundation Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 11
- Total given
- $290K
- Median grant
- $10K
- Range
- $10K–$110K
- By dollars: Florida 38%, New York 22%, Missouri 9%. Top recipient cities: Flushing, NY; Saint Louis, MO; Tuskegee, AL.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 18% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology · Flushing, NY
Aviation scholarships
$65K
Tuskegee University · Tuskegee, AL
Aviation scholarships
$20K
Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation · Reston, VA
Aviation scholarships
$10K
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA
Aviation scholarships
$10K
Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN
Aviation scholarships
$10K
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