Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Gold Badges for 1989


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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.


1889 Daniel C. Marotta
1888 Thomas A. Seim
1887 Robert J. Gladics
1886 Russell R. McAnerny
1885 James D. Wolf
1884 Stephen C. Smith
1883 John F. (Skip) LaTour, Jr.
1882 Roland von Huene
1881 Jeffrey J. Baldwin
1880 William H. Green
1879 Gene B. Walker
1878 Jose Navarro
1877 Peter Deane
1876 Michel E. Hughes
1875 Douglas R. Carrell
1874 Robert M. Duncan
1873 Robert J. Mudd
1872 Walter Leu
1871 Andrew C. Frechtling
1870 Emery (Bud) Hopp
1869 Phil Bucher
1868 William H. Dittmyre
1867 Marvin J. Gordan
1866 Richard Wallace
1865 Gary P. Johnston
1864 Michael Wolff
1863 Paul V. Oldershaw
1862 William A. Memick
1861 Jim Dodson
1860 David E. Boehmer
1859 Oliver A. Benson
1858 John H. Stewan
1857 James A. Sumner
1856 Thomas E. Kelley
1855 John F. Unangst, Jr.
1854 Brett R. (Rex) Mayes
1853 Harry A. Nutter, Jr.
1852 Richard H. Elliott
1851 Dietrich K. Lezius
1850 Michael H. Bradford
1849 Amlin Czudnochowsky
1848 Randall W. Hollenberg
1847 William H. Knox
1846 Werner W. Birkelbach
1845 David G. Jones, Jr.
1844 Mitchell R. Hawkins
1843 John Sharp
1842 Hugh M.B. Johnston, III
1841 James E.P. Davis
1840 Michael R. Packard
1839 Christian H. Klix
1838 Steven L. Smith
1837 David A. Wood

1988 1988 Gold Badges TOC Gold Badges Table of Contents 1990 1990 Gold Badges


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