Combs Gates Award
Submission Deadline for National Aviation Hall of Fame’s Annual Combs Gates Award is June 13, 2016
$20,000 juried prize to be presented at 2016 NBAA Convention in Orlando
Earlier this spring, the National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) publicly issued a nationwide “call for entries” for its 14th Annual Combs Gates Award. Submissions to be considered for the prestigious $20,000 cash award are due June 13, 2016. The Combs Gates Award is presented each year to an individual or group for a submitted project judged to be exemplary in the promotion and preservation of America’s air and space heritage. The subject of submitted projects ideally spotlights one or more of the 229 men and women aviation pioneers who have been inducted, to date, into the Congressionally chartered, nonprofit NAHF.
The 2016 award ceremony will take place during a special session of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) annual meeting and convention. The NBAA convention is the largest civil aviation event in the world, and this year takes place on Nov. 1-3 in Orlando, Fla. Officials from the NAHF and NBAA will present the award, joined by several previous enshrinees of the NAHF.
Among projects eligible for the Combs Gates Award are books, film/video, public exhibits, photography, and artwork. Full details of the guidelines are posted on the Awards Presentations page of www.nationalaviation.org.
Last year’s recipient was filmmaker, Kim Furst, for her documentary, “Flying the Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project.” NAHF Director of Enshrinement and Outreach, Ron Kaplan, said, “The Combs Gates Award is the pinnacle honor for those dedicated historians who produce great content so that the rest of us can learn and be inspired by the legacies of our nation’s air and space pioneers.”
