Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Gold Badges for 1956


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Earning an FAI Gold Badge requires that the pilot complete an altitude gain of 3,000 meters, a distance flight of over 300 km, and a duration flight of five hours.   Only one duration flight is necessary to meet the requirements of both the Silver and the Gold Badge.


  65 Sterling V. Starr
  64 Robert E. Brown
  63 John U. Karlovich
  62 Louis S. Rehr
  61 James P. Mulloy
  60 Delbert W. Miller
  59 Dewey J. Mancuso
  58 Charles E. Kohls
  57 Victor Swierkowski
  56 William R. Briegleb
  55 Stanley W. Smith
  54 George E. Coder, Jr.
  53 Richard E. Schreder
  52 George E. Cavaiani
  51 H. Marshall Claybourn, Sr.
  50 Charles F. Abel
  49 Robert L. Moore
  48 Graham S. Thomson

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