Previous winners of the Henderson Trophy in reverse order:
2022 NGPA (press release)
2021 Tuskegee Airmen (press release)
2020 Dr. Peggy Chabrian (press release)
2019 The Ninety-Nines (press release)
2018 Michael Huerta (press release)
2017 Angela Gittens (press release)
2016 George Carneal (press release)
2015 Durwood “Skip” Ringo (press release)
2014 Dr. John Langford (press release)
2013 Colonel Joseph Kittinger, USAF, (Ret.) (press release)
2012 Joe Lombardo (press release)
2011 The Honorable Marion Blakey (press release)
2010 No award given
2009 No award given
2008 No award given
2007 No award given
2006 John Miller
2005 Martha King (press release)
2004 Admiral Wesley L. McDonald, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
2003 William F. Chana & Jerome Lederer (press release)
2002 Lt. Gen.Thomas H. Miller, USMC (Ret.) (press release)
2001 United States Air Force Academy (press release)
2000 Lt. Col. Spann Watson, USAF (Ret.)
1999 Eugene Deatrick
1998 Cliff Robertson
1997 Tom Poberezny
1995 J. Kenneth Higgins
1994 General Charles A. Gabriel, USAF, (Ret.)
1993 Ten US Aerospace Companies who supported Desert Shield/Desert Storm: Bell Helicopter, The Boeing Company, General Dynamics, Grumman, Hughes Aircraft, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop, Sikorsky Aircraft, Vought Aircraft and General Charles A. Gabriel, USAF (Ret.)
1992 General Russell E. Dougherty
1991 John L. Baker
1990 Major General Clifton F. von Kann, USA (Ret.)
1989 Vice Admiral Donald D. Engen, USN (Ret.)
1988 Major General Leigh Wade, USAF
1987 Walter J. Boyne
1986 A. W. “Tony” LeVier
1983 Ernest K. Gann
1982 Anne Morrow Lindbergh & Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle
1981 General Alton D. Slay, USAF
1972 William M. Magruder
1971 Dr. Robert R. Gilruth & John H. Shaffer
1970 Joseph P. Adams, Senator Howard W. Cannon, US World Aerobatic Team and the 1970 World Aerobatic Championship
1969 Daniel J. Haughton, Major General Jewell C. Maxwell, USAF, Senator Barry M. Goldwater, Vice Admiral Thomas F. Connolly
1967 Major Bernard F. Fisher, USAF, Alan A. Boyd, General William F. “Bozo” McKee, James E. Webb
1966 Senator Jennings Randolph, Joseph B. Hartranft, Jr., Senator Warren G. Magnuson, Frank Borman, Edward White, II, Donald W. Nyrop
1964 Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson and Chan Gurney
1963 Edwin A. Link, Jacqueline Cochran, William M. Allen
1961 Vice Admiral William F. Raborn, William Allan Patterson, General Curtis LeMay, The Society of Experimental Test Pilots
1960 A. Scott Crossfield