Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Gold Badges for 1991


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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.


2001 Gerry G. Sibley
2000 Marc S. Silverman
1999 Charles V. Mange
1998 Jerry R. Wilson
1997 David A. Romer
1996 Craig M. Roebuck
1995 John W. Oplinger
1994 Stephen Volk
1993 David M. Sitz
1992 William P. Blair, Jr.
1991 Jospeh F. Frick
1990 Philip N. Rose
1989 Joe F. Klubeth
1988 Stephen Herlt
1987 Thomas A. Sorce
1986 Paul A. Gravance
1985 Ken Helm
1984 Hans Schwan
1983 Wesley L. Lineberry
1982 David E. Treinis
1981 Tracy W. Carlson
1980 Steven L. Bales
1979 V. Alan Gough
1978 Daniel J. Altstatt
1977 Mitchell Deutsch
1976 Charles L. Griswold
1975 Key Dismukes
1974 Poul D. Pedersen
1973 Richard L. Kohler
1972 Martin J. Eiler
1971 Catherine A. Larsen²
1970 Delbert N. Blomquist³
1969 Thomas W. McMullen³
1968 James W. Schwerin
1967 Karl-Heinz Ziwica
1966 Richard A. Brown
1965 David Meeks
1964 George A. Taylor
1963 Michael L. Shakman
1962 David M. Sterling
1961 Arthur W. Clark
1960 Alvan W. Barrett
1959 Gary J. Hedges
1958 Walter J. Lafford
1957 Wm. Guerry Howard
1956 Dennis E. Holland
1955 Paul E. Stone
1954 Eric M. Reese
1953 Roland Monette
1952 Robert DeVries
1951 Steven Leonard
1950 Mark L. Saunders
1949 Joe Feather
1948 Richard K. Leffingwell
1947 Arthur L. Hale
1946 Robert A. Harvey
1945 John A. Carter
1944 James C. Garrison
1943 Ray Kleber
1942 Gunter Pawski
1941 G. Kenneth Walker

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

1990 1990 Gold Badges TOC Gold Badges Table of Contents 1992 1992 Gold Badges


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