Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Gold Badges for 1976


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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.


1064 Fred N. Sortwell
1063 Paul C. Paris
1062 Frederick L. Jacobs
1061 Don E. Coder
1060 Paul N. Acres
1059 Clyde D. Sharman
1058 Orville M. Shannon
1057 Bela J. Szalai
1056 Richard S. Pugh
1055 Richard Sager
1054 Mark A. Jaeger
1053 Henry M. Nixon, Jr.
1052 Robert G. Wilson
1051 Larry D. Brill
1050 Richard H. Karas
1049 Brian A. Bird³
1048 Gary R. Kennedy
1047 Lawrence J. Minch
1046 William H. Painter
1045 Leo T. Roach
1044 Albert W. Thomas
1043 Tom J. Johnston
1042 Stephen M. Foreman
1041 Clifton E. Lind
1040 Jess M. Green, Jr.
1039 Nancy J. Zirkle²
1038 Warren E. Rachford
1037 Thomas B. Turner, Jr.
1036 Vincent Griesemer
1035 Wayne Kocher
1034 John E. Belt
1033 Grant W. Cary
1032 Lance DeStefans
1031 Werner J. Raab
1030 Mario A. Crosina
1029 John V. Epperson
1028 Kenneth H. Wheatley
1027 Tomasz Serkowski
1026 Robert P. Stapp
1025 Robert G. Willis
1024 Donald A. Briggs, Jr.
1023 Richard L. Hall
1022 Robert W. Dowgialo
1021 Constance I. Linke²
1020 Dian B. Snyder²
1019 Madeleine A. Holland²
1018 Alfred M. Lorenz
1017 Randall P. McIntyre
1016 Gerald J. Kaufman, Jr.
1015 Robert A. Haskins
1014 David K. DuVal
1013 Johathan T. Mead
1012 Garey E. Hudson
1011 Gary A. Hagemeister
1010 Richard W. Townsend
1009 Gregg D. Breitegan
1008 John R. Hulls
1007 Joseph N. (Chip) Bearden, III
1006 John K. Vandiver
1005 James R. Collier³
1004 Wayne E. Woodmansee
1003 Peter H. Martin
1002 David L. Robertson
1001 Miles Coverdale
1000 Terry G. Haug
 999 Donald J. Fenner
 998 Jack A. Mayberry
 997 Joseph M. Bennis
 996 Charles D. Mattson³
 995 Richard S. Stevens
 994 Ernesto Estrada
 993 Edmund K. Gravely
 992 Walter N. Cawby
 991 James A. Furr
 990 Leslie D. Scharf
 989 Herbert A. Light
 988 Brian G. Utley

² WSPA
³ All badge legs flown in a 1-26

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