De la Vaulx Medal
# De la Vaulx Medal

The De la Vaulx Medal is an aviation award presented by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), the international aviation standard setting and record-keeping body. The award was established in 1933 in memory of the Comte de La Vaulx, who was a founder and president of the FAI.

The De la Vaulx Medal is awarded to holders of recognized absolute world aviation records set during the year before.

## Recipients

The following is an incomplete list of recipients of the De la Vaulx Medal:

* 1934 - Francesco Agello, Regia Aeronautica Italiana
* 1935 - Francesco Agello, Regia Aeronautica Italiana
* 1937 - Mikhail Gromov, Andrey Yumashev and Sergey Danilin, Soviet crew [ru], non-stop flight distance record of 10,148 kilometers (6,306 mi) from Moscow, Russia, to San Jacinto, California, US, via the North Pole
* 1938 - Ronald Gustave Kellet, Royal Air Force Pilot
* 1951 - Fred Ascani, 100-kilometer closed course speed record of 635 mph in an F-86E
* 1986 - Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, around-the-world flight of the Rutan Voyager
* 2016 - Alberto Porto, Aircraft engineer & pilot, world speed record of the class R in a Risen (airplane)
