Agrinaut Award
The Agrinaut Award is presented to an agricultural aircraft operator or operating organization that has made an outstanding contribution in the field of ag aircraft operations. The recipient for the award must have been actively engaged in commercial agricultural application with an agricultural aircraft and the achievement cited shall have contributed to the "state-of-the-art" for the benefit of the agricultural aircraft industry as a whole.
Sponsor
Originated in 1967 by Agrinautics of Las Vegas, Nev., and by NAAA under procedures established for noting new operating techniques, new and novel equipment, new successful crop applications or other contributions.
Previous Recipients
| 2017 | Star-Flex (Brett Barber & Terry Gross, posthumously) |
1991 | G.O. "Chris" Christopher |
| 2016 | Jeff Reabe, Reabe Aircraft Improvement | 1990 | Leland Shelton |
| 2015 | None | 1989 | Gerald S. Beck |
| 2014 | Rod Thomas | 1988 | Tom Mills |
| 2013 | Pratt & Whitney Canada | 1987 | Mid-Continent Aircraft |
| 2012 | Leonard Felix Jr. | 1986 | Roy W. Wood Sr. |
| 2011 | None | 1985 | Leland Snow |
| 2010 | Terry Sharp | 1984 | Mississippi AAA |
| 2009 | Bill Hubler | 1983 | Milton Robertson |
| 2008 | Joe D. Vaughn | 1982 | George "Red" Willett |
| 2007 | Scott Schertz | 1981 | James L. Maxwell |
| 2006 | Jack Frost | 1980 | William Hatfield |
| 2005 | Rick Reed | 1979 | Robert S. Leverton |
| 2004 | Zoren O'Brien | 1978 | W.P. "Bill" Cardiff |
| 2003 | None | 1977 | George Mitchell Jr. |
| 2002 | Pat Kornegay | 1976 | James Vedder |
| 2001 | Thomas R. Summersill | 1975 | Joe Sellers |
| 2000 | Robert Carroll Potter | 1974 | Clint G. Frye |
| 1999 | Dennis Gardisser | 1973 | A.T. Morgan |
| 1998 | Maynard Lund | 1972 | Lloyd Nolan |
| 1997 | None | 1971 | V. Ray Thornton |
| 1996 | George & Grant Lane | 1970 | John Neace |
| 1995 | John O'Connell | 1969 | Robert Phillips |
| 1994 | John Goodwin | 1968 | Bill Marsh |
| 1993 | George P. Wilson | 1967 | Richard Reade |
| 1992 | Charles Stone Jr. |