Richard Crane Award
The Flight Safety Foundation Richard Crane Award is named after one of our founders. Richard Crane was an entrepreneur who launched the first regional airline in the United States in the 1930s. He was a visionary, whose critical leadership role in the early days of Flight Safety Foundation helped establish it as the preeminent global aviation safety advocacy organization. Click here to read more about Richard Crane.
The Richard Crane Award recognizes an organization for its sustained corporate leadership through lasting contributions in the field of civil aviation. Industry, government, and non-government organizations qualify for nomination. The Award will consider organizations that have proactively addressed one or more of the following goals in aviation or aerospace:
- Preparing the next generation of leaders;
- Building a culture of innovation;
- Accelerating diversity, equity and inclusion;
- Driving transformation;
- Creating a strategic mindset;
- Embedding change management into organizational processes;
- Integrating cultures;
- Fostering a resilient and inclusive organization;
- Promoting sustainability and social responsibility; and,
- Supporting humanitarian efforts.
2023 Award Recipient
RTCA and EUROCAE
In recognition of their significant contributions to the advancement of aviation and aviation safety and the development of robust, harmonized standards that have provided the foundation on which many technical advances have been built. RTCA and EUROCAE have a long history of working collaboratively, transparently, and effectively to build consensus and develop standards that contribute significantly to safe operations and to the harmonized deployment of new concepts and technologies around the world.
2022 Award Recipient
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
For its leadership in a time of global crisis and its coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the Council Aviation Recovery Task Force (CART). ICAO, through CART, forged partnerships with Member states, international and regional organizations, and a wide array of industry stakeholders to address pandemic-related challenges and to provide coordinated, international guidance for a safe, secure and sustainable restart of operations and recovery of the aviation sector.