The shortlisted Finalists and Winners are announced, scroll down the page to see the Winners and Finalists for each of the award categories 

The Aerospace Media Awards have been created to honour journalists and publishers who have made a significant contribution to aerospace journalism and publishing. One of the exciting aspects of every Aerospace Media Awards event is the chance to meet and mingle with peers from all over the world. The 2025 Aerospace Media Awards will be presented in Paris on Sunday 15th June. To register your interest please hit the button below, in the meantime please feel free to view the video below.

The Aerospace Media Dinner has become 'the' aviation media networking event and consistently delivers an evening of superb hospitality and entertainment. 

These are a distinct set of awards celebrating the best in aviation journalism and publishing.

The list of finalists and award categories for 2024 are as follows

Best New Aviation Journalist - sponsored by Embraer

For journalists under 35 or with no more than 5 years’ experience in aviation journalism

Winner - Charlotte Bailey

Alfred Chua

Mikayla Easley

Ryan Finnerty

Michael Marrow

Sean Reynolds

Best Aviation Image – sponsored by Dassault Aviation

Neville "Ned" Dawson - Safer Hawaiian HEC, Winward Aviation Goes Twin-Engine - HeliOps Magazine

Benoit Denet - In volo con la Vipera - JP4 Aeronautica Magazine

Lloyd Horgan - HeliService USA: A Rising Wind - Vertical Magazine

John Kraus - Vulcan Rising - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Winner - Eric Magnan - Flying the Falcon 6X – Aviation International News

Mark Wagner - Tilted Rotors - Aviation Week ShowNews

The Best Safety, Training & Simulation Submission - sponsored by CAE

Keith Button - Ending runway incursions - Aerospace America

Winner - Sean Broderick, Jens Flottau, Thierry Dubois, Christine Boynton - Single-Pilot Operations Are Under Increased Scrutiny - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Rachel Cohen - After tragedy, US Air Force probes English training for foreign pilots - Military Times

Lisa Gordon - Canadian helicopter operators say uncertain future of Class D HEC ops puts lifesaving missions at risk - Vertical Magazine

David Rimmer - Air charter safety and legality: an insider’s view – AEROSPACE

Patrick Veillette - Conditions That Cause Autorotation Mishaps – Business and Commercial Aviation

The Best Rotorcraft/Vertical Flight Submission - sponsored by TE Connectivity

Winner - Gideon Ewers - Holding the Key - RotorHub International

Ben Forrest - The future of aerial firefighting - Vertical magazine

Elan Head - How Robinson Helicopter arrived at its new tail design - Vertical Magazine

Gareth Jennings - Need for speed: Western militaries seek to expand the envelope of rotorcraft performance – Janes

Emma Kelly - Unended Quest - RotorHub

Ken Swartz - Tidal Change: The story behind the rebound of the offshore helicopter transport sector - Vertical Magazine

The Best Multi Media Aviation Submission

To include podcasts, video reports and integrated social media submissions

The Perfect Aircraft Pit-stop - Aviation Xtended

Winner - Aaron Heslehurst, Jonathan Josephs, James Cooke & Sarah Jackson - What does the future of air travel look like? - BBC Talking Business with Aaron Heslehurst

Flying the MD530F and the Resurrection of MD Helicopters – Ian Whelan - Aviation International News

Spotlight On Narrowbodies—Insights From Aviation Week's Check 6 Podcast - Aviation Week's Check 6 Podcast

3-part B-52 video series and 2-part podcast part 2 podcasts - Defense News

Vago Muradian and J.J. Gertler - The Air Power Podcast

The Best Business Aviation Submission

Charles Alcock - Bizav's Quandry Over Eco-Protests - AIN Media Group

Thierry Dubois - France Puts Environmental Pressure on Business Aviation - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Will Guisbond - Gulfstream G700 delays illustrate upended realities of big jet FAA approval - The Air Current

David Rimmer - Air Charter Safety and Legality: An Insider's View - AEROSPACE

Mike Stones - We are a company of engineers - Corporate Jet Investor Quarterly

Winner - Alasdair Whyte - Wheels on Fire - Corporate Jet Investor

The Best Military Aviation Submission - sponsored by Lockheed Martin

Winner - Rachel Cohen - Inside the Air Force's massive mobility war game in the Pacific - Military Times

Paul "Foo" Kennard - How Does the UK Stop ‘Winging it’ on Combat Air Mass - Antares Magazine

Vago Muradian - Defense & Aerospace Report Air Power Podcast

Richard Scott - I feel the need - the need for SEAD - AOC Journal of Electromagnetic Dominance

Bill Sweetman and Giuseppe Picarella- Inside the B-21 Raider - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Thomas Withington - Ruining Radars - Armada International

The Best Aerospace & Defence Business Submission

Courtney Albon - Space Force mulls refueling as industry calls for funding, standards - C4ISRNET

Charles Alcock - Can Putin's BRICS Allies Be Trusted Trade Partners? - AIN Media Group

Matthew Fulco, Michael Bruno, Jens Flottau, Steve Trimble, Ben Goldstein and Bradley Perrett - The China Conundrum - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Jon Lake - Turkish Aerospace - providing sovereign capabilities for Ankara - Air International

Winner - Michael Marrow & Aaron Mehta - Pratt blasts Lockheed’s ‘confusing and misleading’ adaptive engine advocacy - Breaking Defense

Vago Muradian - The Defense & Aerospace Report Business Roundtable

The Mike Savage Award for the Best Passenger & Crew Wellbeing Submission – sponsored by CTT Systems

Bernie Baldwin - Rights on Flights - Air International

Chloe Greenbank - Life and soul - Regional Gateway

Winner - Mary Kirby - US DOT’s expanded lav rule for narrowbodies still a decade away - Runway Girl Network

Kerry Lynch - Tackling aviation's mental health paradox - Aviation International News

Keith Mwanalushi - Outside The Box - Inflight Magazine

David Slotnick - Farm-to-terminal: How airport restaurants are becoming the 1st destination of your trip - The Points Guy

The Best Un-Manned Systems Submission – sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems

Winner - Craig Hoyle - High Hopes - Flight International

David Oliver - Stabilising Unmanned Images - Armada International

Mark Piesing - The robot aircraft with a nightmarish nuclear mission - BBC Future

Noah Robertson - Replicator: An inside look at the Pentagon’s ambitious drone program - Defense News

Tim Robinson - Going stratospheric - AEROSPACE

Brandi Vincent - Switchblade 600 kamikaze drones in the running for Replicator mass production - DefenseScoop

The Best Propulsion Submission - sponsored by Rolls-Royce

Winner - Stephen Bridgewater - Small changes, big gains - AEROSPACE (Magazine and Blog)

Jon Grevatt - At full speed: Hypersonix prepares DART AE for future heights - Janes Defence Weekly

Michael Gubisch - Could GTF issues spur a new P&W partnership with Rolls? - Cirium Dashboard

Josh Luckenbaugh - Space Power: Government, Industry Explore Nuclear, Solar Space Engines - National Defense Magazine

Paul Marks - A Manhattan Project for the climate - Aerospace America

Guy Norris - Rolls-Royce Rolls Out the World's Biggest Commercial Engine - Aviation Week & Space Technology

The Best Space Submission

Winner - Harry Baker - Solar Maximum could hit us harder and sooner than we thought - Livescience.com

Sidney E. Dean - LGM-35A Sentinel: Aiming for 2030 Debut - European Security & Defence

Jeff Foust - The Accidental Monopoly: How SpaceX became (just about) the only game in town – SpaceNews

Theresa Hitchens - New Joint Force space doctrine clarifies Space Command’s ‘offensive’, ‘defensive’ ops - Breaking Defense

Bella Richards - Will launch capacity fall short? - AEROSPACE

Laura Winter - When Nation States Target The Commercial Space Sector - The DownLink

The Best Advanced Air Mobility Submission – sponsored by Supernal

Rohit Goel - Flying into The Future - SP's Aviation

Elan Head - Special Report: Surveying the eVTOL competitive landscape - The Air Current

Jonathan Hemmerdinger - But is it an aircraft? FAA undecided on critical question as Regent seeks ‘seaglider’ guidance - FlightGlobal

Jen Nevans - Beta Technologies: Building a Beta Future - Vertical Magazine

Garrett Reim - Why eVTOL Air Taxis Are Starting to Look the Same - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Winner - Graham Warwick - Eyes on the AAM Prize - Aviation Week & Space Technology

The Best Commercial Aviation Submission - sponsored by McKinsey & Company

Bernie Baldwin - Channel hopping - Air International

Lewis Harper - Battered - but not beaten - Airline Business

Victoria Moores – European Liberalization 30 years on - Routes Daily

Winner - Mark Pilling - The Right Approach - is air traffic management able to modernise? - Flight International

Edward Russell - United has few good alternatives to 737 Max 10 - The Air Current

Adrian Schofield - Shopping Season - Aviation Week & Space Technology

The Best Breaking News Submission - sponsored by Honeywell

Winner - Christine Boynton - Multiple Coverage of the JetBlue-Spirit merger trial - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Peter Felstead - UK MoD details recent Open Skies activity as arms control in Europe becomes increasingly irrelevant - European Security & Defence

Theo Leggett - Boeing's mid-flight blowout a big problem for company - BBC News website

Michael Marrow - F-35A officially certified to carry nuclear bomb - Breaking Defense

Jon Ostrower - U.S. airlines, fed up, forced change in the Boeing C-suite - The Air Current

Pilar Wolfsteller, Jon Hemmerdinger, Alfred Chua, David Kaminski-Morrow - Alaska 737 Max suffers ‘pressurisation issue’ after window blow-out - FlightGlobal

The Best MRO Submission - sponsored by Liebherr

Peter Bardehle - Europe´s aircraft graveyard. Bringing planes back to life - Vidicom Media

Stephen Bridgewater - Pumping lead – GA’s dirty little secret - AEROSPACE

David Hughes - High Cost of Cheap – Avionics News

Akash Malakar - Cirrus SR22 Garmin Avionic Upgrade - Prop Clear

Victoria Moores - African Empowerment – Inside MRO

Winner - Kerry Reals - Lighter, smarter HUMS take flight in the air medical sector - AirMed & Rescue

The Best Aviation Artificial Intelligence (AI) Submission

For articles about AI in aviation, not articles written by AI

Lindsay Bjerregaard - AI Fever Sweeps MRO, But Will Excitement Last? - Inside MRO

Winner - Gabriel Dominguez - The next arms race: China leverages AI for edge in future wars - The Japan Times

Sydney Freedberg - The revolution that wasn’t: How AI drones have fizzled in Ukraine (so far) - Breaking Defense

Alex Hollings – Project Venom: The Air Force is Adding AI Pilots to 6 F-16s - Sandboxx News

Kerry Lynch - The AI dive into aviation - Aviation International News

Brandi Vincent - What the Pentagon can learn from the saga of the rogue AI-enabled drone ‘thought experiment’ – DefenseScoop

The Best Sustainable Aviation Submission

Christine Boynton - This Summer Gave U.S. Airlines A Glimpse Of What Might Come - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Keith Button - Supersonic travel: Dead on arrival? - Aerospace America

Tony Harrington - What factors risk derailing aviation's net-zero sustainability goal? - FlightGlobal

Elan Head - Goop, gulp and glow: Imagining the paths to a 1,000 Wh/kg battery - The Air Current

Winner - Guy Norris - Targeting Trails - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Geoffrey Thomas - Aviation’s Greatest Challenge Is Not Net Zero But Stopping Misinformation - AirlineRatings.com

The Best In-depth Aviation Submission – sponsored by Eurofighter

Ryan Finnerty and Craig Hoyle - Why the US Air Force is accelerating its future tanker fleet plans - Flight International

Jonathan Hemmerdinger - But is it an aircraft? FAA undecided on critical question as Regent seeks ‘seaglider’ guidance - FlightGlobal

Mark Huber - Spectrum Wars Continue Summer Sizzle - Aviation International News

Gareth Jennings - Need for speed: Western militaries seek to expand the envelope of rotorcraft performance - Janes

Winner - Jon Ostrower - Inside the strained union of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems - The Air Current

Judges Commendation - Richard Scott - Widening the field: AESA radars multiply for Eurofighter Typhoon - Jane's Defence Weekly

Matt Thurber - Twenty Years Later: First Flight of the HondaJet Prototype - Aviation International News

Alasdair Whyte - Wheels on Fire - Corporate Jet Investor

The Bill Gunston Technology Writer Of The Year Award - sponsored by Boeing

Bill Carey

Sydney Freedberg

Elan Head

Jon Lake

Winner - Steve Trimble

Greg Waldron

The Aerospace Reporter of the Year Award – sponsored by Dassault Aviation

Bill Carey

Winner - Jon Hemmerdinger

Norbert Neumann

Jon Ostrower

Adrian Schofield

Patrick Veillette

Lifetime Achievement Award - Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Contribution to Aerospace Journalism - sponsored by Lockheed Martin

The recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award(s) at the 2024 Aerospace Media Awards were -

Paul Jackson

Jeff Burger

Andrew Chuter

If you have any questions about the 2024 awards, please submit them to themediadoctor@aol.com

2024 Aerospace Media Dinner - 21st July - London