Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy
Winners of the National Aeronautic Association's Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy:
- 2015 - Burt Rutan
- 2014 - Bob Hoover
- 2013 - Marion Blakey
- 2012 - Robert J. Stevens
- 2011 - Thomas P. Stafford
- 2010 - Harrison Ford
- 2009 - Steven Udvar-Hazy
- 2008 - Norman R. Augustine
- 2007 - Eugene Cernan
- 2006 - Norman Mineta
- 2005 - Edward C. Aldridge Jr.
- 2004 - Robert Crandall
- 2003 - John Glenn
- 2002 - Paul Poberezny
- 2001 - Neil A. Armstrong
- 2000 - Herb Kelleher
- 1999 - Delford M. Smith
- 1998 - Edward Stimpson
- 1997 - Charles H. Kaman
- 1996 - Frederick W. Smith
- 1995 - Russell W. Meyer, Jr.
- 1994 - Albert Lee Ueltschi
- 1993 - Gerhard Neumann
- 1992 - Jake Garn
- 1991 - Benjamin A. Cosgrove
- 1990 - Edwin I. Colodny
- 1989 - Thomas Victor Jones
- 1988 - Sam B. Williams
- 1987 - Allen E. Paulson
- 1986 - Joseph F. Sutter
- 1985 - Harry B. Combs
- 1984 - David S. Lewis, Jr.
- 1983 - J. Leland Atwood
- 1982 - Willis M. Hawkins
- 1981 - Dwane L. Wallace
- 1980 - Olive Ann Beech
- 1979 - T. A. Wilson
- 1978 - Jennings Randolph
- 1977 - Ira C. Eaker
- 1976 - William A. Patterson
- 1975 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson
- 1974 - Richard T. Whitcomb
- 1973 - Barry M. Goldwater
- 1972 - John H. Shaffer
- 1971 - Howard W. Cannon
- 1970 - C. R. Smith
- 1969 - William M. Allen
- 1968 - Warren Magnuson
- 1966 - Igor I. Sikorsky
- 1966 - Juan T. Trippe
- 1965 - Jerome Lederer
- 1964 - Henry F. Guggenheim
- 1963 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.
- 1962 - John Stack
- 1961 - A. S. Mike Monroney
- 1960 - Frederick C. Crawford
- 1959 - William Petterson MacCracken, Jr.
- 1958 - John Francis Victory
- 1957 - Stuart Symington
- 1956 - Edward P. Warner
- 1955 - Hugh L. Dryden
- 1954 - Theodore von Kármán
- 1953 - John Carl Hinshaw
- 1952 - James H. Doolittle
- 1951 - Jerome Hunsaker
- 1950 - Grover C. Loening
- 1949 - Charles A. Lindbergh
- 1948 - William F. Durand