This award, first presented in 1966, recognized “outstanding individual contributions to aviation safety, through basic design, device or practice.”
A retired U.S. Navy admiral and a Foundation president in the mid-1950s, de Florez was influential in the development of early flight simulators. He received the 1943 Collier Trophy — one of the most prestigious awards for aeronautical achievement in the United States — for his work in training pilots and flight crews. De Florez established a trust to support the award that carries his name and to provide each recipient with $1,000. The award includes a hand-lettered citation.
This award was discontinued in 2011.
Recipients of the
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| 2010 | No award |
| 2009 | No award |
| 2008 | No award |
| 2007 | William L. McNease and Gerald Pilj, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration |
| 2006 | J. Kenneth Higgins, Boeing Commercial Airplanes |
| 2005 | Alan Klapmeier |
| 2004 | Thomas J. Yager |
| 2003 | Capt. Paul A. Woodburn |
| 2002 | Scott Shappell, Ph.D., Civil Aerospace Medical Institute U.S. Federal Aviation Administration; Douglas Wiegmann, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| 2001 | Capt. Warren Vanderburgh, American Airlines Flight Academy |
| 2000 | Thomas Imrich, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration |
| 1999 | Ivan Efremovich Mashkivsky, Flight Safety Foundation International, Moscow |
| 1998 | Donald Bateman, AlliedSignal |
| 1997 | Capt. K. Scott Griffith, American Airlines; Edward D. Mendenhall, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. |
| 1996 | No award |
| 1995 | Capt. Chester L. Ekstrand, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group |
| 1994 | No award |
| 1993 | Richard Milton |
| 1992 | John McCarthy, U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| 1991 | John J. Neligan, American Airlines |
| 1990 | Peter L. Gallimore, Lester G. Lautman and Richard L. Sears, all with The Boeing Co. |
| 1989 | Felix L. Pitts, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center |
| 1988 | Richard G. Hill |
| 1987 | Huey D. Carden |
| 1986 | Sidney B. Pickles |
| 1985 | Richard F. Chandler |
| 1984 | Richard S. Bray |
| 1983 | J.R. Sturgeon, U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment |
| 1982 | Capt. John X. Stefanki, Air Line Pilots Association, International |
| 1981 | Richard Gerald Snyder, Ph.D., University of Michigan |
| 1980 | Gunnar Antvik (retired), Board of Civil Aviation, Sweden |
| 1979 | David Johnson, U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment |
| 1978 | J. Anderson Plumer, Lightning Technologies |
| 1977 | Dr. T. Theodore Fujita, University of Chicago |
| 1976 | Daniel F. Sowa, Northwest Airlines |
| 1975 | C.D. (Don) Bateman, Sundstrand Data Control |
| 1974 | Kenneth B. Olsen, American Airlines |
| 1973 | No award |
| 1972 | Dr. John T. Dailey, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration |
| 1971 | No award |
| 1970 | Capt. Victor Hewes, Air Line Pilots Association, International |
| 1969 | Douglas Moreton; S. Harry Robertson, AvSer |
| 1968 | No award |
| 1967 | Franklin W. Kolk, American Airlines; Don Mitchell, Piper Aircraft Corp. |
| 1966 | George Cooper, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration |