Experimental Aircraft Association’s CEO, Jack Pelton, will receive the ninth annual WAC Trophy at the January gala. Jack Pelton was actually the creator of the Wichita Aero Club (WAC) which will honor him with the presentation of its annual Wichita Aero Club Trophy.
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The eighth annual Wichita Aero Club Trophy was presented to Lynn Nichols, a Chief Executive Officer who led the revival of a virtually dormant business to impressive levels of success—even during an industry-wide recession—and to his team of employees at Yingling Aviation.
Read MoreOn January 28, 2017, Paul Bowen was celebrated as the seventh recipient of the Wichita Aero Club Trophy. Since 1972 Paul Bowen has been an exemplary ambassador for the aviation industry and “The Air Capital of the World,” producing the world’s most creative, memorable and enduring air-to-air images.
Read MoreDoc’s Friends Restoration Team, the group leading the return of the B-29 known as ‘Doc’, to flyable status, received the annual Wichita Aero Club Trophy on Saturday, January 23, 2016.
Read MoreThe fifth annual Wichita Aero Club Trophy was presented to former Learjet Public Relations Executive and co-founder of Sullivan Higdon & Sink Advertising Al Higdon at its annual trophy gala on Jan. 24, 2015, at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Wichita Airport.
Read MoreThe Wichita Aero Club presented its fourth annual Wichita Aero Club Trophy to former Cessna Aircraft Company Chairman Russell W. Meyer, Jr. on January 25, 2014 at its annual Trophy Gala.
Read MoreKansas Senator Jerry Moran and key members of Airbus’s corporate management team participated in the presentation of the 2012 Wichita Aero Club Trophy to John O’Leary, Vice President of Engineering for Airbus Americas Engineering.
Read MoreKansas Fourth District Congressman Mike Pompeo and officials of the Wichita Aero Club presented the organization’s second WAC Trophy Saturday to Spirit AeroSystems Chief Executive Officer Jeff Turner at a gala attended by 250 local and regional aviation leaders.
Read MoreThe Wichita Aero Club presented its first Wichita Aero Club Trophy to Mrs. Velma L. Wallace at the Club’s annual Ball on Saturday evening, September 18, 2010 at the Wichita Airport Hilton.
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