AFA Lifetime Achievement Award
This prestigious award recognizes a lifetime of work in the advancement of aerospace.
Past Winners
| 2024 | Norman Augustine, Aerospace Businessman |
| 2023 | Dr. Paul Kaminski, Chairman/CEO Technovation, Inc.; Pioneers of the Red Flag, presented to Lt. Gen. Glen “Wally” Moorehead, USAF (Ret.) |
| 2022 | Gen. Lance W. Lord, USAF (Ret.); Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught, USAF (Ret.) |
| 2021 | CMSAF James M. McCoy, USAF (Ret.) |
| 2020 | Gen. Lloyd “Fig” Newton, USAF (Ret.); Gen. John M. Loh, USAF (Ret.); Maj. Gen. Michael Collins, USAF (Ret.) |
| 2019 | Gen. John A. Shaud, USAF (Ret.); Gen. T. Michael Moseley, USAF (Ret.); Dr. Benjamin Lambeth |
| 2018 | Maj. Gen. Alfred K. Flowers, USAF (Ret.); Dan Friedkin; Air Force Scientific Advisory Board; Air Force Enlisted Village; Air Force Aid Society |
| 2017 | Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, USAF (Ret.); Col. Clarence E. “Bud” Anderson, USAF (Ret.); Elinor Otto; Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Foundation |
| 2016 | Maj. Gen. Claude M. Bolton Jr., USAF (Ret.); Lt. Col. John T. Correll, USAF (Ret.); Gen. Charles A. Horner, USAF (Ret.); Lt. Gen. James M. Keck, USAF (Ret.); Gen. Richard B. Myers, USAF (Ret.) |
| 2015 | R. A. “Bob” Hoover; Eugene F. “Gene” Kranz; Gen. Michael V. Hayden, USAF (Ret.) |
| 2014 | Brig. Gen. James A. McDivitt, USAF (Ret.); Civil Air Patrol—World War II veterans; American Fighter Aces |
| 2013 | Maj. Gen. Joe H. Engle, USAF (Ret.); US Rep. Sam Johnson; The Arlington Committee of the Air Force Officers’ Wives’ Club—“The Arlington Ladies” |
| 2012 | Gen. James P. McCarthy, USAF (Ret.); Vietnam War POWs; Berlin Airlift Aircrews; Korean War Airmen; Fighter Pilots of World War II |
| 2011 | Natalie W. Crawford; Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, USAF (Ret.); Gen. Larry D. Welch, USAF (Ret.); Heavy Bombardment Crews of WWII; Commando Sabre Operation-Call Sign Misty |
| 2010 | Col. Walter J. Boyne, USAF (Ret.); Andrew W. Marshall; Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze, USAF (Ret.); Women Airforce Service Pilots |
| 2009 | Doolittle Raiders; Tuskegee Airmen; James R. Schlesinger |
| 2008 | Col. George E. Day, USAF (Ret.); Gen. David C. Jones, USAF (Ret.); Harold Brown |
| 2007 | CMSAF Paul W. Airey, USAF (Ret.) |
| 2005 | Sen. Daniel K. Inouye; William J. Perry; Patty Wagstaff |
| 2004 | Gen. Russell E. Dougherty, USAF (Ret.); Florene Miller Watson |
| 2003 | Maj. Gen. John R. Alison, USAF (Ret.); Sen. John H. Glenn Jr.; Maj. Gen. Jeanne M. Holm, USAF (Ret.); Col. Charles E. McGee, USAF (Ret.); Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, USAF (Ret.) |