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Tony Bingelis Award

The Tony Bingelis Award recognizes significant contributions to the encouragement of aircraft projects for fellow EAAers, the promotion of aviation safety, and maintaining the values of EAA. A  nominee must have been an active and current EAA Technical Counselor for a t least five consecutive years. Created in 2002, the award honors the late Tony Bingelis, a noted homebuilding authority and EAA Sport Aviation columnist who wrote 300 how-to articles from 1972 to 1996, and authored four homebuilding book. A retired U.S. Air Force pilot, he was a founding member of Chapter 187 in Austin, Texas, in 1963, and helped organize the EAA Southwest Regional Fly-In in 1965. He was inducted into the Homebuilders' Hall of Fame in 1995, and died in March 2001.

Past Winners of the Tony Bingelis Award:

2009 Earl Luce
2008 Bob Rockford
2007 Richard Koehler
2006 Jim Miller
2005 Mel Asberry
2004 Alex Sloan
2003 Joe Gauthier

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