The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is once again calling for nominations for its annual General Aviation Safety Award. The Award seeks to honour individuals and teams who, through skill and determination, have made a lasting contribution to GA flight safety. Whether it is a ’one off’ incident, or a lifetime of campaigning work, the CAA is keen to give credit where it is due.

Although many previous winners have been honoured for displaying good airmanship in potentially serious flying incidents, the CAA encourages nominations for individuals or organisations whose contribution to flight safety might be more enduring, such as maintenance engineers, aerodrome managers and air traffic controllers.

Nominees should be over 16 years of age and can be organisations as well as individuals.

Posters have been distributed to flying schools and clubs across the country calling for nominations.

Nominations should be made online at www.caa.co.uk/gasafetyaward or by emailing press.office@caa.co.uk. Please include full contact details and reasons for nomination.

The closing date for nominations is 31July 2011.

Last year’s winners were Charles Strasser for his tireless campaign to persuade aerodromes to allow GA aircraft to make free emergency landings and John Thorpe, former Chief Executive of GASCo, for several decades of promoting GA safety awareness. A special award was also presented to the designers of the Airbox Aware GPS device.

For further media information contact the CAA Press Office on: 0207 453 6030 or press.office@caa.co.uk .