Aviation Partners Boeing Wins 2012 Lindbergh Corporate Balance Award

The Lindbergh Foundation chose the first day of the 2012 NBAA Convention to award its prestigious Corporate Award for Balance to Aviation Partners Boeing, a joint venture between Aviation Partners (API) and Boeing created in 1999 to equip Boeing aircraft with API’s blended winglet technology. The winglets have saved billions of gallons of jet fuel and significantly improved the performance specifications of Boeing jetliners.

Lindbergh Foundation chairman John Petersen said, “It is exciting to recognize a company that so clearly demonstrates the Foundation’s vision of progress through balance. Not only has the blended winglet technology made significant progress in reducing drag and fuel consumption, but in the process it has decreased noise and pollution.”