Recipients of The Tony Jannus Award
Winners of the Tony Jannus Award are enshrined at the St. Petersburg Museum of History's First Airline Pavilion and Tony Jannus-related exhibits. The Museum, located 100 yards (91 m) from the site of the inaugural flight's takeoff on January 1, 1914, also has an operational replica of the Benoist XIV airplane flown by Jannus that day. The replica was built by the Florida Aviation Historical Society in 1983 and flown across Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg to Tampa on January 1, 1984, in a reenactment of the Jannus inaugural flight 70 years earlier.. The replica was moved to the museum in January, 1993.
A permanent exhibit at Tampa International Airport also pays tribute to the following individuals (by year) who have received the Tony Jannus Award since 1964:
- 1964: A. S. Mike Monroney — U.S. Senator, Oklahoma
- 1965: Juan Trippe — founder, Pan American Airways
- 1966: Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. — founder, Douglas Aircraft Company
- 1967: Eddie Rickenbacker — chairman, Eastern Air Lines and Medal of Honor World War I aviator
- 1968: William A. Patterson — president of United Airlines (1934–1966)
- 1969: Frank Whittle — jet engine developer
- 1970: Daniel J. Haughton – chairman, Lockheed Aircraft
- 1971: William M. Allen — chairman, Boeing Company
- 1972: Jimmy Doolittle — instrument flight developer and Medal of Honor World War II aviator
- 1973: Geoffrey Knight and Henri Ziegler — Concorde co-developers
- 1974: William P. Lear — aircraft radios and avionics developer
- 1975: Elrey Borge Jeppesen — founder and chairman, Jeppesen Company
- 1976: C. R. Smith – founder, American Airlines
- 1977: Robert F. Six — founder, Continental Airlines
- 1978: Donald Nyrop – chairman, Northwest Airlines
- 1979: Jehangir Tata — founder, Air India
- 1980: Thomas Davis – founder, Piedmont Airlines
- 1981: Howard W. Cannon — U.S. Senator, Nevada
- 1982: Manuel Sosa de la Vega – president, Mexicana de Aviación
- 1983: David C. Garrett, Jr. — president, Delta Air Lines
- 1984: Knut Hammarskjold – director general, International Air Transport Association
Wayne Parrish – aviation publisher - 1985: Edward Curtis Wells — aircraft designer, Boeing Company
- 1986: Frank Borman — chairman, Eastern Air Lines and astronaut
- 1987: Jerome F. Lederer — founder, Flight Safety Foundation
- 1989: Sir Lenox Hewitt – chairman, Qantas Airways
- 1990: Edwin Colodny – chairman, USAirways
- 1991: Colin Marshall — CEO, British Airways
- 1992: Thornton A. Wilson — chairman, Boeing Company
- 1993: Herbert D. Kelleher — CEO, Southwest Airlines
- 1994: Alan S. Boyd — U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- 1995: Martin Schröder – founder, Martinair
- 1996: J. George Mikelsons — founder, ATA Airlines
- 1997: Charles E. Yeager — supersonic flight pioneer
- 1998: Angus Kinnear – president, Canada 3000
- 1999: Federico Bloch – CEO, Grupo TACA
- 2000: Richard Branson — chairman, Virgin Atlantic Airways
- 2001: Robert Crandall — CEO, American Airlines
- 2002: Freddie Laker — founder, Laker Airways
- 2003: Gordon Bethune — CEO, Continental Airlines
- 2004: Norman Mineta — U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- 2005: David Neeleman — CEO, JetBlue Airways
- 2006: Joe Leonard – CEO, AirTran Airways
- 2007: Colleen Barrett — president, Southwest Airlines
- 2008: Larry Kellner — CEO, Continental Airlines
- 2009: James L. Oberstar — U.S. Congressman
- 2010: Jaan Albrecht – CEO, Star Alliance since 2001
- 2011: Frederick W. Smith — Founder and CEO, FedEx
- 2012: Frederico Curado – CEO, Embraer
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