Chairman Past Master Air Commodore Rick Peacock-Edwards

The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators presents aviation industry awards each year to mark achievement and excellence within the industry. These prestigious awards are presented in Guildhall, London (usually) by a member of the Royal Family or The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor and in the presence of over 700 individuals involved in aviation.

A copy of the terms of reference of each award can be found here. You will see that they cover a broad spectrum of achievement within the ‘industry’ from individual to corporate, both civil and military. The Guild also awards Master Air Pilot and Master Air Navigator certificates throughout the year in recognition of long and distinguished professional aircrew achievement.

The awards are important and distinctive because they recognise achievement which may otherwise not fit the criteria for a national award (honours list etc) and therefore remain unrecognised by the industry and public alike.

The vital requirement for timely, sincere and well-drafted citations in support of nominations for the awards cannot be over-emphasised and the Guild depends entirely on receiving such nominations in order to judge and justify the presentation of each particular award to the most deserving recipient.  In order to maintain the high standards which have been established, awards are only presented each year if a sufficient standard of merit can be established by the citation – nominations have failed in the past because of a poorly written citation.

Nominations are welcome for the awards to be made in 2010.  Citations (of approximately 300/400 words) should be sent to the Guild office before the end of May 2010.

Information about awards made in 2009 can be found here:

These awards serve a useful and high-profile public relations purpose to the benefit of all in aviation. They help to maintain the deservedly high esteem in which aviation as an industry and profession is held by the public at large.  I ask that you help the Guild to fulfil that aim.