Some Chanute Flight Award Recipients
- 1940 Howard Hughes, Engineer, Pilot
- 1955 Albert Boyd, pioneering test pilot
- 1957 Frank Kendall Everest, Jr, test pilot
- 1967 Milton O. Thompson, NASA Director of Research
- 1968 William J. Knight, Test pilot, Astronaut, Record setter
- 1954 Albert Scott Crossfield, Test pilot, Astronaut
- 1957 Brig. Gen. Frank Kendall "Pete" Everest, Jr., USAF
- 1962 Neil Alden Armstrong, Astronaut
- John Leonard (Jack) Swigert, Jr. Astronaut (Apollo 13 crewman)
- Charles N Haas, Environmental Engineer
- 1965 Alvin S. White, Test pilot
- 1949 VADM Frederick M. Trapnell, pioneering naval aviator and test pilot
- 1960 Joseph John "Tym" Tymczyszyn, Test Pilot
- 1986 George Jansen
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