Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Gold Badges for 1990


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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.


1940 Harry L. Clayton
1939 Mark D. Grubb
1938 Arthur Wallace
1937 Pierre J. Parent
1936 Jon T. Daffer
1935 Stanley R. Sanger
1934 Charles R. Shuffler
1933 Gus McCarthy
1932 William J. Bardick
1931 Robert B. McKee
1930 Richard Hom
1929 Rex D. Hamilton
1928 Deborah B. Beuttler Kutch²
1927 Henryk Birecki
1926 Henry G. Marlowe
1925 Fernando B. Silva
1924 Patrick Russette
1923 Jerry A. Miller
1922 Joseph S. King
1921 Stephen R. Dvorchak
1920 Stephen McLaughlin
1919 Jay E. Berkowitz
1918 Kenneth R. Baird
1917 Steven I. Peretz
1916 William D. Ray
1915 Judson T. Bauman
1914 Kenton C. Alexander
1913 George W. Powell³
1912 Christopher A. Scarlett
1911 Timothy A. Taylor
1910 Charles E. Homback, II
1909 Rockwell Swanson
1908 D. Ronald Roberts
1907 Robert G. Maronde
1906 Manfred W. Franke
1905 Philip C. Marks
1904 Steven F. Boehmer
1903 Brian Shoemaker
1902 Peter P. Angelou, Jr.³
1901 David A. Finch
1900 Harold T. (Hal) Matousek³
1899 Brian T. Harley
1898 David Silberkleit
1897 Donald A. DeHaan
1896 Kevin L. Cousineau
1895 Lawrence R. Beck
1894 Lee R. Hallerberg
1893 Michael J. Mulcahy
1892 Howard A. Banks
1891 William T. Dodson
1890 Randall S. Kelly

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

1989 1989 Gold Badges TOC Gold Badges Table of Contents 1991 1991 Gold Badges


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