AOPA Hands Out Hoover Hardware

Well-known aviation journalist and safety advocate Barry Schiff was the winner of AOPA’s Hoover Award at the organization’s annual awards gala at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington on Tuesday. He was among six honorees at the event. “This year’s honorees have helped shape every corner of general aviation—in the flight deck, the classroom, the hangar, and the halls of Congress. Their work, and the people they continue to inspire, are a reminder that this community is strong, and that there is a place for everyone in it,” said AOPA Acting Copresident Katie Pribyl.

The Brigadier General Charles McGee Aviation Inspiration Award went to Glendon Fraser, founder of the Red Tail Flight Academy and a tireless advocate for introducing those in underrepresented communities to aviation. Longtime aviation maintenance educator and inexhaustible author on the gamut of aircraft maintenance topics Mike Busch won the Richard G. McSpadden General Aviation Safety Award. The AOPA Foundation Future of Flight Award went to Randolph Mahoney, who established the Hall-Halliburton Air Safety Endowment that supports the AOPA Air Safety Institute. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, got the Joseph B. Doc Hartranft Award for his advocacy in Washington on aviation issues, including sponsorship of the Pilot and Aircraft Privacy Act to eliminate the use of ADS-B data for collecting airport fees, and Douglas Rice earned the Laurence P. Sharples Perpetual Award.