The Gulfstream Outstanding Flight Award Program

The Gulfstream Outstanding Flight Award Program is designed specifically to recognize Gulfstream operators, both commercial and governmental, who use their aircraft in the most outstanding and noteworthy manner each year.

Previous winners have flown thousands of miles in some of the harshest environments in the world, while maintaining a demanding and sometimes grueling schedule. What outstanding achievements have you made with your Gulfstream? From meeting global business challenges to worldwide humanitarian efforts to breaking records, we want to hear how you are using your Gulfstream to its fullest potential.

Nominations accepted until July 31, 2012

• 2010 Award Year Winners
  • Commercial Winner, 2010 Alber-Rowley Trophy for outstanding flight in a Gulfstream aircraft goes to Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc.
    
    The international aircraft services company served a three-day series of flights by a single Gulfstream G150 to transport severely wounded and disabled veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    
    Two veterans were flown to “Impact a Hero,” a weekend event that is focused on honoring soldiers’ bravery, heroism and personal sacrifice. Commercial air travel is often impossible or challenging for veterans with large amounts of shrapnel still in their bodies, severe burns, metal prosthetics and post-traumatic stress disorder. The G150 provides ample shoulder, leg and head room as well as 100 percent fresh air and a quieter cabin, making it the ideal aircraft for transporting our veterans.
    
    

    Left to right: Corporate communications manager, Universal Weather and Aviation Inc., Louis Smith; director trip support services operations, Universal Weather and Aviation Inc., Mark Hazard; vice president marketing, Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc., Kevin Tipton; president, Gulfstream Aerospace, Larry Flynn; chairman of the board, Universal Weather and Aviation Inc., Greg Evans; EVP, chief operating officer, Universal Weather and Aviation Inc., Dave Diulus; chief financial officer, Kelvin Collard.

  
  
  
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    President, Gulfstream Aerospace, Larry Flynn, presents the award to Colonel Omar, Saudi Medevac.

    Government Winner, 2010 Alber-Rowley Trophy for outstanding flight in a Gulfstream aircraft goes to The Saudi Armed Forces Medical Service.
    
    The Saudi Armed Forces Medical Service endured a grueling four-day, 40-hour precision mission in which patients with life-threatening medical problems were delivered to out-of-country specialist hospitals. Using a dedicated and specially designed GV Medevac aircraft, the Saudis provided exceptional, rapid reaction transportation support for several seriously ill patients in need of intensive specialist support.


• 2009 Award Year Winners
  • Commercial Winner, 2009 Alber-Rowley Trophy for outstanding flight in a Gulfstream aircraft goes to Phoenix Air Group.
    
    From mid-April 2009 through early April 2010, Phoenix Air Group operated a single 30-year-old Gulfstream III aircraft in support of the newly established United States Africa Command. Operating out of Stuttgart, Germany, Phoenix Air flew a total of 56 missions, totaling 267 flights, 902 flight hours, and nearly 400,000 flight miles in support of the unified command's intra-regional requirements. Altogether, the Phoenix Air Gulfstream III operated through a total of 45 countries in the African region and was in almost constant motion for the full year in one of the harshest operational environments in the world. Phoenix Air Group is a Part 135 air carrier headquartered in Cartersville, Georgia.
  
  
  
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    Phoenix Air Group Stops Near Tanzania as Part of US Africa Command

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    Left to right: Vice president legal, Phoenix Air, Randy Davis; president, Phoenix Air, Mark Thompson; president, Gulfstream Aerospace, Joe Lombardo; vice president operations, Phoenix Air, Dent Thompson; vice president marketing, Phoenix Air, Bob Tracey; director military contracting, Phoenix Air, Steve Christopher.

  
  
  
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    President, Gulfstream Aerospace, Joe Lombardo, presents the award to Cmdr. Vince Lowell, officer in charge.

    Government Winner, 2009 Alber-Rowley Trophy for outstanding flight in a Gulfstream aircraft goes to United States Navy Executive Transport Detachment Pacific, based at Hickam AFB, Hawaii.
    
    A Gulfstream C-37 of the Navy's Executive Transport Detachment Pacific conducted a ten-day, 26,000 mile diplomatic mission in support of the Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet during late January 2009. Operating as a single-aircraft, island-based unit, the Pacific detachment is the sole executive airlift provider in support of the broad military and geographic responsibilities of the Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet. COMPACFLT's requirement to further U.S. interests in the region requires constant in-person engagement and relationship building through national and naval leadership. This specific mission, which supported national objectives, involved a series of lengthy, long-range, day and night overwater flights to a number of remote and isolated destinations. The mission featured difficult weather and a challenging and turbulent schedule throughout. The Executive Transport Detachment Pacific is a component of the Fleet Logistics Support Wing of the Naval Air Reserve.
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    The US Navy's Executive Transport Detachment Pacific Conducts Ten-Day Diplomatic Mission



• Program Rules
  
  
  • Nominations for the 2011 Alber-Rowley Award will be accepted by Gulfstream through midnight, July 31, 2012.
  • Nominations for flights that occurred between January 1 and December 31, 2011, will be accepted.
  • To be considered, flights must begin in the time frame indicated above but can carry over to the following year, as long as they are completed before the nomination deadline of July 31, 2012.



• Submission Requirements
  • Nominated flights must be submitted to Gulfstream via the Gulfstream designated form, supplemented as appropriate by documentary materials.
  
  
  • Nominated flights must have been completed between January 1 and December 31, 2011.
  
  
  • Nominated flights must have been completed in accordance with all appropriate FAA/International regulations; any flight considered reckless or irresponsible in any manner will automatically be eliminated from consideration.
  
  
  • All nominated flights must have been completed with NBAA or in the case of military flights, service-specific required fuel reserves remaining.
  
  
  • Nominated aircraft must have been fully airworthy at the time of takeoff; all aircrew must have been fully certified and medically fit for the flight planned.
  
  
  • Each aircraft must have been properly fueled and provisioned for the flight planned.
  
  
  • Nominated flights must have been planned with due regard to all ATC, weather, route, support, communications, and other pertinent considerations in mind.
  
  
  • Nominated flights must have been initiated in accordance with the normal activities of the operator; flights conducted for the sole purpose of winning this award will not be considered.
  
  
  • Flights conducted by Gulfstream or employees of Gulfstream are not eligible for this program.
  
  
  • Gulfstream reserves the right to request additional amplifying or other documentary evidence in order to confirm particular aspects of any submitted flight. Requested details on any nominated flight must be made available to Gulfstream for the nomination to proceed to award.
  
  
  • Gulfstream reserves the right to amplify and extend these rules and requirements at any time, solely at its discretion.