The Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award, named in honor of test pilot Tony LeVier, was established by the Flight Test Safety Committee to pay recognition to people who have significantly contributed to the safety of flight test operations. This annual award, which can be presented to an individual or team is presented by Gentex Corporation at the Flight Test Safety Committee's North American Flight Test Safety Workshop in the spring of each year.

To be considered for the award, nominees must have contributed in a significant way to the flight test safety community over a period of time. The nominee must have made a singular safety achievement involved in the saving of human life, a flight test program or test aircraft, and may be nominated only where safety rules were not broken.

Past recipients Recipients of the SETP Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award include: 1999 – Eric E. Fiore, Bombardier Aerospace 2000 – Rodrigo J. Huete, FAA 2001 – David Houle, Former President of SFTE 2002 – Bruce A. Peterson 2003 – Auto ACAS Team 2004 – LCDR William Patton, Aviation Safety Officer and Program Manager and Mr. Thomas Roberts, Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Safety Manager, Naval Test Wing Atlantic (NTWL) Safety Office 2005 – Ralph Mohr, The Boeing Company 2006 - Terry White 2007 - John E. Cashman 2008 - Flight Test Safety Database Team: Barton Henwood, NASA/DFRC; Rodrigo Huete, FAA (Ret); John Hed, FAA; Greg Lewis, National Test Pilot School 2009 - Jerry “Mac” McCawley, Lockheed Martin 2010 - Dave Downey 2011 - Thomas Roberts 2012 - The Boeing Company 787 Flight Test Team: Mike Carriker, Randy Neville, Jennifer-Ellen Gessler; Federal Aviation Administration 787 Flight Test Team: Eugene Arnold and John Hed 2013 - Art Tomassetti 2014 - Terry Lutz, Airbus 2015 - Larry Flynn, Gulfstream Aerospace 2016 - Warren A. Hansen, Textron Aviation 2017 - Mark Skoog, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center 2018 - Terrance Pearce, Bombardier Aerospace 2019 - Barbara Gordon, U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and LT Mark Hargrove, USN 2020 - Darren McDonald, The Boeing Company 2021 - Ben Luther, Nova Systems 2022 - Giorgio Clementi, ITPS Canada 2023 - Jonathan Lindsey & Michael Remaly, The Boeing Company 2024 - MSgt Joshua Thorn, USAF, TSgt Christopher Schiller, USAF, Matthew Toppin, MTSI 2025 - Chris Glaeser, Cirrus Aircraft 2026 - Tarik Turkmen, Markus Scherdel, Stepen Stepen, Dornier Seawings

See also

List of aviation awards

References

See also Flight Test Safety Committee Page SETP Criteria Recipient List