Gold Wing Award

The NBAA Gold Wing Award is presented annually for excellent, accurate and insightful reporting on issues related to business aviation, by trade or nontrade media, in print, web-based or broadcast formats. (Business aviation is the use of general aviation aircraft for business purposes.) The NBAA Gold Wing Award recognizes journalism’s important role in reporting the significant contributions of business aviation to the national economy.

Winners receive an honorarium at the NBAA Annual Meeting & Convention Media Kickoff Breakfast. Co-authors of a winning entry will share honorarium.

Past recipients of the Gold Wing Award include:

• Paul Lowe of Aviation International News (2007)
• David Esler, Business & Commercial Aviation (2006)
• Mark Phelps, Aviation International News (2005)
• Fred George, Business and Commercial Aviation (2004)
• Kerry Lynch, Business and Commercial Aviation (2003)
• Staff of the Chicago Tribune (2003)
• Staff of Aviation International News (2002)
• Chad Trautvetter, Aviation International News (2001)
• Cynthia Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (2001)
• David Collogan, Weekly of Business Aviation (2000)
• Joe Sharkey, The New York Times (2000)
• Martha Brannigan, Wall Street Journal (1999)
• Stephen Pope, Aviation International News (1999)
• Randall Padfield of Aviation International News (1998)
• Peter Greenberg/Conway Cliff of CNBC (1998)
• Perry Bradley of Business & Commercial Aviation Magazine (1997)
• Dan Lothian/Tony Dill of NBC News (1997)
• David Esler of Overhaul & Maintenance magazine (1996)
• Jack Elliott of The Star-Legder (1996)

Rules for 2008 Gold Wing Award Submissions:

• Entries may be single articles, features or a series on business aviation issues published in print, web-based or broadcast formats.
• Stories should have appeared in print, online or on-air between June 1, 2007, and June 30, 2008.
• For articles appearing in print, submit original copies of the published articles. For articles appearing online, submit the articles either in hardcopy format or in PDF format on CD. For audio or video features airing on TV or radio, or published online, submit the features in digital format on CD or DVD.
• Entries will be judged by a panel of experts, and their decision is final.
• The deadline for the 2008 award is July 15, 2008.

All entries become the property of NBAA and entrant gives consent for reprinting/duplication. Entrant also gives NBAA permission to use entry and entrant’s name for educational or promotional purposes.

Gold Wing entry forms and accompanying materials must be submitted by the deadline to:

NBAA Gold Wing Award
Attn: Dan Hubbard
1200 Eighteenth Street NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036-2527

For more information, contact:

Dan Hubbard
NBAA Vice President, Communications
Tel: (202) 783-9360
E-mail: dhubbard@nbaa.org

Download the 2008 Gold Wing Award Rules and Entry Form (PDF 44 KB).