AFA Lifetime Achievement Award
This prestigious award recognizes a lifetime of work in the advancement of aerospace.
Past Winners
| 2025 | Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, USAF (Ret.) Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, USAF (Ret.) Gen. John P. Jumper, USAF (Ret.) Gen. Gregory S. Martin |
| 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.) |