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 2025 Awards will be presented in Paris on the evening of June 15th

The list of finalists for the award categories for 2025 are as follows -

Best New Aerospace Journalist  - sponsored by Embraer

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

Ryan Finnerty

Grace Hardy

Howard Hardee

Dize Kandu

Rob Munro

Allyson Park

Best Aviation Image – sponsored by Dassault Aviation

Manuel Belleli – Rafale – French Air Force – Flying Echo Magazine

Ned Dawson – No Roads Required - HeliOps Magazine

Benoit Denet – Axalp - Aviation Week and RAIDS Aviation

John Kraus - Game, Set and Catch - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Heath Moffat – Swan Song of the Hawaii Mars – Skies Magazine

Avichal Socher – Israeli Defences Counter Ballistic Missile Attack - Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

Gabriel Dominguez - Standoff in the skies: Witnessing an unsafe intercept over the South China Sea - The Japan Times

Ryan Finnerty - Army helicopter was 100ft above mandatory flight ceiling during collision with PSA Airlines jet - FlightGlobal

Jeff Guzzetti - Mis-Rigging Mishap: Flight 5481 in Charlotte - Aviation Maintenance

Elan Head - How big data helped Airbus avoid a potential catastrophic accident - The Air Current

David Hughes - GPS Under Attack - Air Traffic Technology International

Kerry Lynch - Securing Your Operation and Being Ready for 'Crazy' - Aviation International News

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

Grace Hardy - Mastering the elements - RotorHub International

Mark Huber - Operation Helo - Power Up

Oliver Johnson - Civil Support - Vertical Magazine

Emma Kelly – Raising Awareness – RotorHub International

Bill Sweetman - Bursting the eVTOL bubble - AEROSPACE

Matt Thurber - Learning To Fly with Night-vision Goggles - Aviation International News

The Best Multi Media Aerospace Submission

To include podcasts, video reports and integrated social media submissions

Dr. Ron Epstein, Richard Aboulafia, Sash Tusa, and Vago Muradian - Business Report - Defense & Aerospace Report

Jon Ostrower – The Air Show Podcast – The Air Current

Check 6 Revisits - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Ben Forrest, Jon Gray & Billy Hardiman - Inferno Over Los Angeles - Vertical Valor Magazine

Theo Leggett - The airshow where billion-dollar deals are made - BBC Business Daily

Ian Whelan - Flying the Updated Pilatus PC-24 Super Versatile Jet - Aviation International News

The Best Business Aviation Submission

Charles Alcock - Business Aviation Outlook Shows Wider Transatlantic Gap – AIN Media Group

Bill Carey - Crowded Skies: Runway use at Newark-Liberty Airport dictates runway use at Teterboro –  Business & Commercial Aviation

Ben Forrest – Swan Song for the Hawaii Mars – Skies Magazine

Kerry Lynch - Remembering GARA 30 years later: The law that changed the trajectory of the industry - AIN Media Group

Mike Stones - From start-up to mainline player – Corporate Jet Investor Quarterly

Patrick Veillette – HondaJet’s Runway Excursions - Business & Commercial Aviation

The Best Military Aviation Submission - sponsored by Lockheed Martin

Marco Barone - How France is choosing its new maritime patrol aircraft – Future Warfare Magazine

Elan Head - V-22 Fatal Crash – The Air Current

Gareth Jennings - ACE moves: NATO revamps Agile Combat Employment road operations for combat jets - Janes

Tim Robinson - Designing Tempest from the inside out - Aerospace

Bill Sweetman and Joe Picarella - Out Of The Shadows - Chengdu's J-36 - Aerospace

Steve Trimble – Budget Raider - Aviation Week & Space Technology

The Best Aerospace & Defence Business Submission

Valerie Insinna and Michael Marrow - As Air Force deliberates sixth-gen fighter plans, much is at stake for Boeing - Breaking Defense

Dize Kandu - Buzz of War: The Strategic Revolution of FPV Drones - A5 Journal of Defense Industry - A5 Journal of Defense Industry

Jon Lake – A Game of Two Halves - Air International

Stephen Losey - Trump tariffs could backfire on military, some experts warn - Defense News
Jon Ostrower & Will Guisbond - Boeing and Airbus aside, huge uncertainty hangs over the rest of Spirit Aerosystems – The Air Current

Dominic Perry - Comic-loving Cingolani outlines Leonardo’s reinvention to meet changed security outlook - FlightGlobal

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

Satu Dahl – The Gentle Touch - Inflight

Jennifer Ferrero - Mitigating risk in special missions - AirMed&Rescue

Keith Mwanalushi - Pressing the refresh button - Inflight

Jen Nevans - Inadvertent Combative Patients - Vertical Valor Magazine
Liz McConaghy - PTSD – A Personal Experience – Antares Magazine

Tony Harrington - Regional Reignition – Airline Routes & Ground Services

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

Sidharth Kaushal - Mass precision strike: The best of both worlds – ESD

Gareth Jennings - Dark blue drones: Royal Navy sets out path to unmanned aviation future - Janes

Jon Lake - Killer Drones of Tomorrow - Air International

Tommaso Massa - The evolution of drone warfare in Ukraine - Future Warfare Magazine

Mark Piesing - The Secret History of Drones - The Smithsonian Air and Space Quarterly

Garrett Reim - Startup Develops Factory To Print And Glue Together Thousands Of Drones - Aviation Week and Space Technology

The Best Propulsion Submission  - sponsored by Rolls-Royce

James Careless - Narrowbody Engine Maintenance Market is Strong! -  Aviation Maintenance Magazine

Jon Kelvey - Competing visions - Aerospace America`
Robert Moorman - Rolls-Royce Redux - Vertiflite

Murdo Morrison - Pearl engine success propels Rolls-Royce’s business aviation revival - Flightglobal.com

Guy Norris - Pratt & Whitney Unveils Details of Hydrogen-Steam Hybrid Engine Cycle -  Aviation Week & Space Technology

Pilar Wolfsteller - Smartflyer eyes electric training revolution with innovative SF-1 - FlightGlobal

The Best Space Submission

Bruce Einhorn - Elon Musk’s Starlink Terminals Are Falling Into the Wrong Hands - Bloomberg News

Peter Felstead - Methera poised to launch dual satellite services focused on surge-capacity broadband and space domain awareness - ESD

Jeff Foust - Slow Burn: How Starliner’s crewed test flight went awry - SpaceNews

Peggy Hollinger - The satellite spectrum battle that could shape the new space economy - Financial Times
Jon Kelvey - Understanding the misunderstood Kessler Syndrome - Aerospace America

Vivienne Machi - How The X-37B Is Shaping The Future Of The U.S. Space Force - Aviation Week & Space Technology

The Best Advanced Air Mobility Submission – sponsored by Supernal

Sidney Dean - eVTOL and HSVTOL: Making progress - ESD

Emma Kelly - So You Want to Build a Heliport/Vertiport; From Heliports to Vertiports; Dealing With the Unknown - RotorHub European Rotors 2024 Daily

Murdo Morrison - Australia’s AAM adventure: how the nation is leading the way in disruptive air travel - FlightGlobal
Dominic Perry - Insider insists Lilium Jet would have gone the distance but for botched rescue - FlightGlobal

Alex Preston - Better Batteries By Design - Aerospace Innovations

Garrett Reim - AFWERX Says Agility Prime eVTOLs Lack Range, Shifts To Hybrid - Aviation Week and Space Technology

The Best Commercial Aviation Submission - sponsored by McKinsey & Company

Brent Bergan & Patrick Lalande - The Snowbirds of Curacao – Skies Magazine

Ben Forrest - A captain in the North – Skies Magazine

Tony Harrington - Fantastic Fiji – Airline Routes & Ground Services Magazine

Mark Piesing - How Active Volcanoes Can Put Airplanes in Danger - The Smithsonian Air and Space Quarterly

Mark Pilling - When the little grasshoppers fight - African Aerospace
Craig West - Bold or Bust - Inside Russia's aviation revamp – Airliner World

The Best Breaking News Submission - sponsored by Honeywell

Jon Hemmerdinger, Ryan Finnerty and Howard Hardee - Ongoing Coverage of Washington, DC PSA Airlines crash -- Multiple Stories – FlightGlobal

Valerie Insinna and Michael Marrow - Breaking coverage of sixth-generation fighters – Breaking Defense

Gareth Jennings - Leveraging LOUT: Airbus sets to work on developing Electronic Combat Wingman for the Luftwaffe  - Janes

Jon Ostrower - Former Rockwell Collins CEO joins list of Boeing CEO candidates – The Air Current

Greg Waldron - China celebrates Mao’s birthday with new combat jets - FlightGlobal

Robert Wall, Steve Trimble and Matt Jouppi - NGAD Win Puts Boeing Back In The Game With The F-47 - Aviation Week's Check 6 Podcast

The Best MRO Submission

Lindsay Bjerregaard - Aircraft Inspections With Drones Accelerate Toward Next Evolution – Inside MRO

James Careless - The State of Widebody Aircraft/Engine Maintenance – Aviation Maintenance

Rob Hodgetts - Planning the perfect PPI – Corporate Jet Investor Quarterly

Eric Kulisch - Vendor troubles slow delivery of Amazon freighter aircraft - FreightWaves

Stephen Losey - Air Force aircraft readiness plunges to new low, alarming chief – Air Force Times

Michael Marrow – As Air Force reviews ejection seat deal, Collins, Martin-Baker gear up for a fight – Breaking Defense

The Best Aerospace Artificial Intelligence (AI) Submission - sponsored by Anduril

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

Lindsay Bjerregaard, Christine Boynton, Thierry Dubois, Helen Massy-Beresford, Garrett Reim, Steve Trimble and Graham Warwick - The State Of AI In The Aerospace Industry - Aviation Week & Space Technology

Mikayla Easley - Inside the AI-enabled pilot that flew Air Force Secretary Kendall through a dogfight - DefenseScoop

David Hughes - Will it Fly? - Avionics News

Vago Muradian - How Can the U.S. Win at Artificial Intelligence? - Defense & Aerospace Report

Garrett Reim - NASA Tests AI’s Ability To Engineer A Spaceship - Aviation Week and Space Technology

Mark Robins - AI-ML is A-OK for Aviation Maintenance Tracking and Predictive Maintenance - Aviation Maintenance Magazine

The Best Sustainable Aviation Submission

Bernie Baldwin - Creating the catalyst for carbon-neutral flights - Air International

Stephen Bridgewater - Scaling Up SAF - AEROSPACE
Lisa Gordon - Pressing for a SAF Policy - Skies Magazine

Victoria Moores - The e-SAF Question - Air Transport World

Karen Walker - ATW Sustainability Special Report - Air Transport World

Graham Warwick - The Future of Aviation Propulsion-Batteries, Fuel Cells And SAF - Aviation Week & Space Technology

The Best In-depth Aerospace Submission  – sponsored by Eurofighter

Marco Barone - Saab's and Flygvapnet's Present and future plans - Future Warfare Magazine

James Careless - Ensuring Robust, Resilience in Cybersecurity for Civil Aircraft - Aerospace Innovations

Gabriel Dominguez - Standoff in the skies: Witnessing an unsafe intercept over the South China Sea – The Japan Times

Jon Lake - F-35: the future of air dominance or a trillion-dollar trainwreck? - ESD

Tim Robinson and Joe Coles - Boom boasts supersonic success with XB-1 - AEROSPACE

Richard Scott - UK faces hard choices on future combat air capability - Janes Defence Weekly

Victoria Tozer-Pennington - The Supply Strain - Aviation Leaders Report 2025
Laura Winter - When Nation States Target The Commercial Space Sector - The DownLink Podcast

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

Bill Carey

Sydney Freedberg

Elan Head

Jon Lake

Steve Trimble

Greg Waldron

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

Ryan Finnerty

Craig Hoyle

John Lake

Stephen Losey

Jon Ostrower

Dominic Perry

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

The winners of the Lifetime Achievement Awards will be announced on the night.

The 2025 Aerospace Media Awards will be presented in Paris on the evening of Sunday June 15th

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