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NBAA Meritorious Service to Aviation Award goes to Joe Clark
Joe Clark’s design innovation and professional contributions honored by NBAA.
API co-founder Joe Clark received NBAA’s Meritorious Service to Aviation Award for his work on super efficient winglet technologies.
API co-founder Joe Clark received NBAA’s Meritorious Service to Aviation Award for his work on super efficient winglet technologies.

It is something when you can look at a trophy on the mantelpiece and know that you share the honor with the likes of Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle and Bill Lear. This week that honor, the NBAA Meritorious Service to Aviation Award, given to those who have advanced aviation with their extraordinary contributions, was awarded to aerospace innovator Joe Clark, chairman and CEO of Aviation Partners, Inc. (API) and chairman of the Aviation Partners Boeing joint venture, for his pioneering of blended winglet and, more recently, split scimitar winglet technology.