List of RAeS medal recipients

This is a list of recipients of medals awarded by the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Individual medal recipients

Gold Medal recipients

• 1909 - Wilbur and Orville Wright
• 1910 - Octave Chanute
• 1945 - Air Cdre Frank Whittle
• 1949 - Sydney Camm
• 1950 - Sir Geoffrey de Havilland
• 1952 - Theodore von Kármán
• 1955 - Ernest Hives, 1st Baron Hives - "for his outstanding work in the field of aircraft propulsion.".
• 1957 - Robert Lickley
• 1958 - Stuart Davies
• 1959 - Marcel Dassault
• 1960 - Sir Frederick Handley Page
• 1964 - Ronald Eric Bishop
• 1967 - Stanley Hooker
• 1977 - Sir Frederick Page
• 1977 - George Lee
• 1983 - Geoffrey Lilley
• 1986 - Ralph Hooper
• 1986 - Sir Donald Spiers
• 2009 - Henry McDonald
• 2012 - Elon Musk
• 2014 - Dr Gordon McConnell
• 2015 - Professor Richard J Parker
• 2024 - Sue Partridge, FREng

Silver Medal recipients

Winners of the annual Silver Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society

• 1962 - Dietrich Küchemann
• 1967 - Charles Joy
• 1971 - John Argyris
• 1991 - Roy Dommett
• 2005 - Professor David Southwood
• 2010 - Frank De Winne
• 2011 - Professor Terence Jones
• 2012 - Robert Smith
• 2013 - Professor John Denton
• 2014 - Mr Frank Ogilvie
• 2014 - Mr Robert Saia
• 2015 - G. Satheesh Reddy

Team medal recipients

Team Gold Medalists

• 2004 - SpaceShipOne
• 2005 - Airbus A380 Wing Design Team
• 2007 - BERP rotor development team
• 2008 - Trent 900 Engineering Team
• 2009 - Vectored-thrust Aircraft Advanced Control (VAAC) Team
• 2009 - Jules Verne ATV Operations Team
• 2014 - Project Zero Team
• 2015 - Rosetta Mission Team
• 2019 - Chang'e 4 Lunar Landing Mission Team

Team Silver Medalists

• 2005 - Huygens project team
• 2008 - Cranfield Aerospace X-48B UAV
• 2010 - Mantis UAV project team
• 2011 - HYLAS-1 team
• 2012 - CAMPS development team
• 2013 - ASTRAEA Team
• 2014 - Team Taranis
• 2015 - The Beagle 2 Mars Mission Engineering Team