List of World War I aces credited with 15–19 victories

Aces

</onlyinclude> Name Country Air service(s) Victories Notes

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 19Shores, et al (1990), p. 66 |Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 19Shores, et al (1990), p. 69–70 |Military Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 19Shores, et al (1990), p. 123 |Military Cross with two Bars.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 19Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. p. 99 |Military Merit Cross, Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Aéronautique Militaire | 19 |Médaille militaire, Croix de Guerre

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 19Shores, et al, p. 151 |Military Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 19Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. pp. 106-107 | Military Merit Cross, Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Aéronautique Militaire | 19 |Légion d'honneur, Croix de Guerre with 14 Palmes, Belgian Croix de guerre, British Military Cross, Italian Croix de la CouronneFranks & Bailey, 1992, p. 175.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 19Shores, et al, p. 200–201 |Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross |- |style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Luftfahrtruppen | 19 | Top Hungarian ace. Medal for Bravery (1 Gold, 1 Silver)

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 19Shores, et al, p. 229 |British Distinguished Flying CrossFranks & Bailey, 1992, pp. 51-52.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 19 | Military Cross with Bar. |- |style="background:#e3d9ff;"|† |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 19Shores, et al, p. 315 |Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar. |- | style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Naval Air Service | 19Shores, et al, p. 317 |Distinguished Service Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 19Shores, et al, p. 384 | Distinguished Service Order with Bar. |- |style="background:#e3d9ff;"|† |style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 19Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. pp. 231-232 | First aerial victory ever with a synchronized machine gun. Pour le Mérite, Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 19Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. pp. 234-235 | Iron Cross |- |style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 18Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. p. 65 | Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Aéronautique Militaire | 18 |Légion d'honneur, Médaille militaire, Croix de Guerre with ten Palmes and three étoiles de vermeilFranks & Bailey, 1992, pp.117-118. |- | style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 18Shores, et al, p. 71 | Military Cross with Bar.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftfahrtruppen | 18 |Order of Leopold, Order of the Iron Crown, Medal for Bravery

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 18Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. pp. 126-127 | Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 18Shores, et al, p. 230–231 |British Distinguished Flying CrossFranks & Bailey, 1992, p. 52. |- | style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | US Army Air Service | 18 | Medal of Honor, Distinguished Flying Cross, Italian War Cross"The Balloon Buster"Franks & Bailey, 1992, pp. 58-59.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 18Shores, et al (1990), p. 248 | Distinguished Flying Cross, Belgian Order of Leopold, French Légion d'honneur, French Croix de Guerre

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 18Shores, et al (1990), p. 283–284 |Military Cross with Bar, Italian Medal for Military Valor.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 18Shores, et al (1990), p. 290–291 | Distinguished Flying Cross, French Croix de Guerre

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 18Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. p. 197 | Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 18Shores, et al (1990), p. 365 | Distinguished Flying Cross, Military Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 18Shores, et al (1990), p. 368–369 | Military Cross with Bar

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps |17Shores, et al, p. 62 |Distinguished Flying Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 17 | Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 17Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. pp. 78-79 | Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 17Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. p. 82 | Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 100 |Distinguished Flying Cross |- | Marziale Cerutti |style="text-align:left;"| | Corpo Aeronautico Militare | 17

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 151–152 |Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar, Air Force Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 165 | Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross |- |style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 17Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. pp. 128-129 | Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Australian Flying Corps | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 197–198 |Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Air Force Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 207 |Distinguished Flying Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 207 |Distinguished Flying Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 215 | Distinguished Service Cross |- | style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 17Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. p. 146 | Iron Cross |- | style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 252–253 | Military Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 305 | Distinguished Flying Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 17Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. pp. 181 |Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Corpo Aeronautico Militare | 17 |Three Silver awards of Medal for Military Valor, Military Order of Savoy, French Croix de guerre and Belgian Croix de guerre, Serbian Star of Karageogevich |- | Franz Ray |style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 17Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. p. 185

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 17Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. pp. 190-191 | Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 17Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. p. 209 | Military Merit Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 355–356 |Distinguished Flying Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 359–360 |Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross |- | style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 17Shores, et al (1990), p. 370 |Military Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 59 |Distinguished Flying Cross, French Légion d'honneur, French Croix de Guerre

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 16Shores, et al, p. 72 |Distinguished Flying Cross, French Légion d'honneur, French Croix de Guerre

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftfahrtruppen | 16 | Medal for Bravery (3 Gold awards)

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 16Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. p. 16 | Iron Cross First and Second Class, with Clasps. Knight's Cross and Oak Leaves for Iron Cross. Generalmajor in World War II.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 16Shores, et al, p. 92–93 |Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross |- | style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Aéronautique Militaire | 16 |Légion d'honneur, Médaille militaire, Croix de Guerre with 11 Palmes, Belgian Croix de guerre, British Military CrossFranks & Bailey, 1992, pp. 131-132.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 16Shores, et al, p. 102–103 | Military Cross Rose to Air Commodore in RAF

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 16Shores, et al, p. 113–114 |British Distinguished Flying CrossFranks & Bailey, 1992, pp. 31-32. |- | style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 122–123 |Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal |- | Bruce Digby-Worsley |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 16Shores, et al, p. 147–148 |Distinguished Service Cross with Bar

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 149 | Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal, Italian Medal for Military Valor |- | Stefan Fejes |style="text-align:left;"| | Luftfahrtruppen | 16 | Gold Medal for Bravery (three awards), 1st Class Silver Medal for Bravery (2 awards), 2nd Class Silver Medal for BraveryO'Connor, pp. 54, 56

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 159 | Knight of the Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Flying Cross. Rose to Air Chief Marshal.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 178–179 | Military Cross |- |style="background:#e3d9ff;"| † |style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 16Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. p. 123 | Royal House Order of Hohenzollern

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 16Shores, et al, p. 192 |Distinguished Flying Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 194 | Distinguished Flying Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 215 | Distinguished Conduct Medal with Bar

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 16Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. p. 145 | Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Aéronautique MilitaireUS Army Air Service | 16 |French Légion d'honneur, Médaille militaire, and Croix de Guerre with ten Palmes, British Military Medal, Montenegrin Medal for Military Valor.Franks & Bailey, 1992, pp. 56-57.

|style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 16 | Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Iron Cross, Austro-Hungarian Medal for Bravery

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 314 | Distinguished Flying Cross

|style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 16 | Distinguished Flying Cross with BarFranks & Bailey, 1992, p. 69. |- | Wilhelm Seitz |style="text-align:left;"| | Luftstreitkräfte | 16Franks, Bailey, Guest, 1993. pp. 209-210 | Iron Cross |- | Francis Smith |style="text-align:left;"| | Australian Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 342 |Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross |- | Elliott White Springs |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, US Army Air Service | 16Shores, et al, p. 348. | American Distinguished Service Cross, British Distinguished Flying Cross |- | David Stewart |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 352–353 | Military Cross with Bar, Distinguished Flying Cross |- |Christoffel Venter |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16Shores, et al, p. 372 | Order of the Bath, Distinguished Flying Cross with Bar. Rose to Major General. |- | Anthony Wall |style="text-align:left;"| | Royal Flying Corps | 16 | Military Cross with Bar |-