page_title: Oswald Watt Gold Medal
section_title: Recipients
hierarchical_section_title: Oswald Watt Gold Medal / Recipients
caption_attribution_description: English: Fairey IIID Seaplane A10-3 Flown by Wing Commander Goble and Flight Lieutenant Mcintyre on a survey flight around Australia.
context_page_description: The Oswald Watt Gold Medal is an Australian aviation award named for Oswald Watt, a decorated pilot in World War I.
  It originated in 1921 after the death of Oswald Watt and is awarded for "A most brilliant performance in the air or the most notable contribution to aviation by an Australian or in Australia" by the Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Australia. As it is awarded on merit it is not an annual award; between the award's creation and 1999 it had been awarded a total of 48 times. It was not awarded in the years 2000 - 2010.
context_section_description: The recipients are:
  1921 Francis Stewart Briggs – flew from Melbourne to Brisbane and from Melbourne to Perth
  1922 Harry Turner Shaw – flew in a Farman Sport from Melbourne to Sydney and return in May 1922
  1923 No award
  1924 Flight Lieutenant Ivor McIntyre – pilot of a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Fairey IIID configured as a floatplane in the first circumnavigation of Australia by air; departing from RAAF Point Cook, Victoria on 6 April 1924 and landing on St. Kilda Beach 44 days later
  1925 E. J. Jones – flew from Melbourne to Normanton in north-west Queensland and back to Melbourne
  1926 Flight Lieutenant Ivor McIntyre – second award; pilot on a flight with Wing Commander (later Air Marshal) Richard Williams from RAAF Point Cook (now RAAF Williams) near Melbourne to the Solomon Islands and return
  1927 Bert Hinkler – flew non-stop from London to Latvia as part of a business trip
  1928 Bert Hinkler – second award; flew from England to Australia
  1929 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
  1930 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith – second award
  1931 Bert Hinkler – third award
  1932 Bert Hinkler – fourth award
  1933 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith – third award
  1934 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith – fourth award
  1935 Harry Frank (Jim) Broadbent
  1936 Edgar Percival
  1937 Dr. Clyde Fenton
  1938 Don Bennett
  1939-45 No awards
  1946 Don Bennett – second award
  1947 Squadron Leader Harold Brownlow Martin
  1948-49 No awards
  1950 Martin Warner – inadvertently set a British Empire altitude record for a glider of 23,500 feet (7,160 m) after he flew a Slingsby T.25 Gull 4 into a cloud and it was caught in an updraft
  1951 Patrick Gordon Taylor
  1952 Squadron Leader P. G. Fisher
  1953 Wing Commander Derek "Jell" Cuming
  1954 Mervyn Waghorn
  1955-56 No awards
  1957 Sir Donald Anderson
  1958 Squadron Leader D. W. Leckie
  1959 A. E. Chadwick
  1960 Brigadier Guy N. Moore
  1961 No award
  1962 Henry Millicer
  1963 No award
  1964 Edward Connellan – founder of  Connellan Airways in 1939
  1965 No award
  1966 Harry Schneider
  1967 Sir Hudson Fysh – founder of Qantas in 1921
  1968 No award
  1969 George Alfred (Peter) Lloyd
  1970-72 No awards
  1973 Sir Norman Brearley – founder of West Australian Airways in 1921
  1974 Sir Lawrence Wackett
  1975 Sir Reg Ansett – founder of Ansett in 1935
  1976 Clive Canning – flew a Thorp T-18 that he had built himself from Melbourne to London and return; his arrival in London on 1 July completed the first Australia-England flight in a homebuilt aircraft
   
   
  1977 Horrie Miller – founder of MacRobertson Miller Airlines in 1927
  1978 No award
  1979 Bill Moyes
  1980-82 No awards
  1983 Dick Smith
  1984-87 No awards
  1988 Ian Honnery
  1989-91 No awards
  1992 Chris Dewhirst – the first person to fly a balloon over Mount Everest
  1993 George "Scotty" Allan
  1994 No award
  1995 Jon Johanson – flew around the world in a Van's RV-4 two seat homebuilt aircraft that he had built himself, leaving Adelaide's Parafield Airport on 26 June 1995 and arriving back at Parafield on 4 September 1995
  1996 Shirley Adkins
  1997 Bernie Sarroff
  1998 Dr Andrew (Andy) Thomas – Australian-born NASA astronaut who was stationed on Mir Space Station for 141 days from January to June 1998; and was on Space Shuttle missions STS-77, STS-89/STS-91 (to and from Mir), STS-102 and STS-104
  1999 Paul D. Scully-Power
  2000-2010 No awards
  2011 Squadron Leader Paul Simmons
  2012 John W. Dickenson – "for a most notable contribution to Aviation by an Australian for his invention of the modern Hang Glider and making improvements in flight safety"
  2013 Marj Davis Gillespie – "her voluntary contribution of sixteen years to the Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Australia, the Flying Training Industry and General Aviation"
  2014 Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston – awarded for his work as head of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, set up to oversee the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; and as Australia's Special Envoy to Ukraine after the crash in Ukraine of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  2015 no award
  2016 George Alfred (Peter) Lloyd – second award; "for continued and valuable service to the Aviation Industry and in particula
caption: Fairey IIID floatplane flown by Ivor McIntyre during his circumnavigation of Australia in 1924
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