Gallery: A Retrospective On Aviation Week Networks Laureate Award Winners (2010s and 2020s)

For extraordinary professionalism and courage executing a dead-stick landing of an Airbus A320 on New York’s Hudson River after a bird strike disabled the aircraft’s engines.

For their pivotal roles in bringing about a revolution in unmanned air vehicles.

For incorporating cutting-edge technical advances in development of the G650, Gulfstream’s largest and fastest business aircraft to date.

For his lifelong dedication to air safety and inventions that saved thousands of lives.

For proving that a stealthy, unmanned aircraft can operate on and around an aircraft carrier deck.

For his role over three decades in transforming Airbus from a niche player to an aviation powerhouse, amassing $800 billion in sales along the way

For returning “better than Hubble” views of the strange little world that lies at the edge of the Solar System and demonstrating “keep-it-simple” engineering in ambitious space projects.

For his vision of using ever larger reusable rockets to send an entire economy into Earth orbit and beyond and for bankrolling development of a rocket engine to launch U.S. national security payloads.

For setting a new record for cumulative time in space (665 days) and being the first woman to head NASA’s Astronaut Office and command the International Space Station.

For leading a remaking of the company by reducing government interference, pursuing investor-based strategies and launching the A350 and A320neo families.

The most sophisticated aircraft yet developed by Embraer and the most ambitious defense development program in South American history. 

For her role as one of the most accomplished U.S. chief executives, presiding over the challenging ramp-up of the global F-35 program and achieving robust earnings and record backlogs.

For his role as the founding father of the leasing sector that now owns more than half of the global commercial aircraft fleet, and as the driving force behind a new U.S. National Air and Space Museum annex outside Washington.

For achieving its first flight eight years after contract and less than a year after its public rollout, opening the door for low-rate production of the first U.S. bomber in three decades.

*There were no Laureates in 2023 due to schedule changes during the COVID-19 crisis.