Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award
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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 significanly 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 Society of Experimental Test Pilots at their annual awards banquet.
To be considered for the award, nominees must have contributed in a significan 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.
[edit] Past winners
- 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
