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To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124 or greater is installed. american spirit awarD has two great passions – aviation and the state of Georgia – and he has spent many years tirelessly supporting both.
This award recognizes the spirit of service demonstrated by humanitarian leaders within the business aviation community. Al Ueltschi, the award’s namesake, has been widely recognized for his lifetime of dedica-tion to philanthropic causes, including ORBIS, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing blindness and saving sight. The Ueltschi Award for 2010 went to the volunteers involved in the historic airlift of relief supplies to earthquake-ravaged Haiti. In the weeks following the disas-ter, business aircraft flew more than 800 missions, carrying 3,800 passengers (including doctors and other first respond-ers) and more than 1.4 million pounds of food, water, medi-cine and medical equipment. Also, the desperately ill and injured were evacuated to U.S. hospitals on the return flights. As a result, countless lives were not only touched, but saved.
substantial contributions to the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC), a group that Winant was instrumental in creat-ing. Stinebring began his 12 years with IBAC while serving on NBAA’s Board from 1995 to 2005.
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