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The Iven C. Kincheloe Award was established in 1958 by the Society of Experimental Test Pilots to recognize outstanding professional accomplishment in the conduct of flight testing. It is awarded annually to a member of the society who has accomplished a significant feat within the year being awarded. The accomplishment must involve actual flight testing conducted by the individual and represent an outstanding contribution to an aerospace flight program while the recipient was acting as a test pilot.

The Iven C. Kincheleo Award itself embodies the Society's connection with the aerospace industry and its influence on the development of manned aerospace systems. The columns represent courage, integrity, knowledge and accomplishment, which help to make up the foundation upon which the Society is built.

Gift of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots

Recipients

1958James R. Gannett, Boeing Airplane Co.

Joseph J. Tymcyzszyn, CAA

1959Maj. Robert G. Ferry, USAF

1960A. Scott Crossfield, North American Aviation

William M. Magruder, Douglas Aircraft Co.

1961Joseph A. Walker, NASA

Maj. Robert M. White, USAF

1962Donald W. MacCracken, McDonnell Aircraft Co.

1963Lt. Cmdr. M. Scott Carpenter, USN/NASA

Maj. Leroy G. Cooper Jr., USAF/NASA

Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., USMC/NASA

Capt. Virgil I. Grisson, USAF/NASA

Cmdr. Walter M. Schirra Jr., USN/NASA

Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr., USN/NASA

Maj. Donald K. Slayton, USAF/NASA

1964Louis W. Schalk, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

William C. Park, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

Robert J. Gilliland, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

James D. Eastham, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

1965Alvin S. White, North American Aviation

1966Milton O. Thompson, NASA

1967Richard L. Johnson, General Dynamics

1968Drury W. Wood Jr., Dornier Werke GMBH

1969Maj. Jerauld R. Gentry, USAF/NASA

Col. James A. McDivitt, USAF/NASA

1970Darryl G. Greenamyer, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

Neil A. Armstrong, NASA

Col. Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., USAF/NASA

Col. Michael Collins, USAF/NASA

1971André Turcat, Aérospatiale

E. Brian Trubshaw, British Aircraft Corp.

1972Capt. John W. Young, USN/NASA

Cmdr. Thomas K. Mattingly II, USN/NASA

Lt. Col. Charles M. Duke Jr., USAF/NASA

Donald R. Segner, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

1973Charles A. Sewell, Grumman Aerospace

1974Irving L. Burrows, McDonnell Aircraft Co.

1975John E. Krings, McDonnell Douglas Corp.

1976Charles C. Bock Jr., Rockwell International Co.

1977Fitzhugh L. Fulton Jr., NASA

1978James M. Patton Jr., NASA

Fred W. Haise Jr., NASA

Col. Joe H. Engle., USAF

Lt. Col. Charles G. Fullerton, USAF

Cmdr. Richard H. Truly, USN

William C. Park Jr., Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

Lt. Col. N. Kenneth Dyson (USAF, Ret.), Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

1979Phillip Oestricher, General Dynamics

Lt. Col. Robert C. Ettinger, USAF

1980Dorman A. Cannon, Bell Helicopter

Ronald G. Erhart, Bell Helicopter

1981John W. Young, NASA

Capt. Robert L. Crippen, USN

1982Thomas C. McMurtry, NASA

1983Lt. Col. John M. Hoffman, USAF

1984Donald L. Bloom, Bell Helicopter

Charles A. Sewell, Grumman Aerospace Corp.

1985William W. Lowe, McDonnell Douglas Corp.

1986David A. Kerzie, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

1987Guy Mitaux-Maurouard, Avions Marcel Dassault

Richard G. Rutan, Voyager Aircraft Inc.

Jeana Yeager, Voyager Aircraft Inc.

1988Channing S. Morse, McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Corp.

1989Addison S. Thompson, Rockwell International Co.

Lt. Col. Randy Gaston, USAF

1990Bruce J. Hinds Jr., Northrop Corp.

Col. Richard S. Couch, USAF

1991 Paul Metz, Northrop Corp.

David L. Ferguson, Lockheed Corp.

1992Capt. Daniel C. Brandenstein, USN

1993Allan T. Reed, McDonnell Douglas Corp.

1994Christopher J. Yeo, British Aerospace

Peter Weger, Deutsche Aerospace

1995John E. Cashman, the Boeing Company

1996Ken Dyson

Dick Thomas

Tom Morgenfeld

Hal Farley

Dave Ferguson

Jon Beesley

Erwin Danuwinata

1997Doug Shane

1998 Gary Freeman, Gulfstream Aerospace

1999 Michael Melvill, Scaled Composites, Inc.

2000 Jeremy Tracy, GKN Westland Helicopters

2001 Wg Cdr Rajiv Kothiyal, Indian AF

2002Herbert G. Moran III, Bell Helicopter

2003Thomas L. Macdonald, Bell-Boeing

2004Mike Melvill, Scaled Composites

Brian Binnie, Scaled Composites

Peter Sielbold, Scaled Composites

2005Randy Neville, The Boeing Company

2006Norman E. Howell, The Boeing Company

2007Jon S. Beesley, Lockheed Martin Corp.

2008Terry E. Tomeny, Calspan Corp.

2009Peter Siebold, Scaled Composites

2010Michael Carriker, The Boeing Company

2011Kevin Bredenbeck, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.

2012Markus Scherdel, Solar Impulse Aircraft

2013Mark P. Stucky, Scaled Composites

2014Dan Wells, Paul Edwards, Pietro Venanzi – AgustaWestland

2015Prospero Uybarreta, Bombardier Flight Test Center

2016 Scott Martin, Gulfstream Aerospace

2017 Charles Ellis, Bombardier Flight Test Center

2018 James M. Payne, Perlan Project

2019 Evan C. Thomas, Scaled Composites, LLC.

2020 Tom Carr, Garmin International

2021 Donald Grove, Bell Textron

2022 S-70 OPV Project

2023 Steven Crane, Eviation, Alice V2 Aircraft

2024 William Shoemaker, Boom Supersonic, XB1 Program

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Object Details
Date 1958 Country of Origin United States of America Type AWARDS-Trophies Physical Description Iven C. Kincheloe Award consists of a stylized delta wing aircraft which faces four columns with the Experimental Test Pilot's "X" emblem (a gold "X" on blue enamal oval) attached to the two center columns. The columns and aircraft are mounted on a solid black bakelite base with engraved silver plaques around the sides of the base with the names of each year's winner. The columns represent courage, integrity, knowledge and accomplishment, which help to make up the foundation upon which the Society is built. The symbolic aerospace vehicle points toward the shield of the Society and conveys the thought that aerospace industry is dependent upon the Society to share in the develoment of manned aerospace systems. Dimensions 3-D: 61 × 27.9 × 76.2cm, 59kg (24 × 11 × 30 in., 130lb.)
 Materials Base: Bakelite
Sculpture: Silver
 Inventory Number A19761161000 Credit Line Donated by the Society of Experimental Test Pilots Data Source National Air and Space Museum Restrictions & Rights Usage conditions apply
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