San Antonio Aviation and Aerospace Hall of Fame 2020 Awards Dinner

Event Cancelled due to COVID-19

We invite you to participate in this historic event by attending the annual awards dinner on 26 March 2020 (to be rescheduled) and becoming engaged in associated event activities.

To honor San Antonio’s Aviation and Aerospace History and to nurture our future generations of innovators, The Dee Howard Foundation (DHF) has joined together, in collaboration with other local, state, and national partners, to organize the San Antonio Aviation and Aerospace Hall of Fame 2020 Awards Dinner to be hosted by GDC Technics at their state of the art hangar at Port San Antonio.

The 2020 Hall of Fame will feature a reception with entertainment provided by the Southwest High School Mariachi Band, dinner with the presentation of the Colors by the 433rd Color Guard and the singing of the National Anthem by Lt. Col. Kat Strus, D.M. (USAF Ret.), induction of 2020 Honorees, the presentation of the third annual DHF STEM Education Excellence Award (SEEA), and a display of current and vintage US Military and civilian aircraft. There will also be exhibits by some of DHF's education partners.

The San Antonio Aviation and Aerospace Hall of Fame is privileged to announce that the Hon. Ron Nirenberg, Mayor of the City of San Antonio, will open the 2020 Awards Dinner and that Dr. Bernard A. Harris, Jr., Chief Executive Officer of the National Math + Science Initiative (NMSI), educator, two time shuttle astronaut, first African-American to complete a spacewalk, and 2017 Inductee to the San Antonio Aviation and Aerospace Hall of Fame will be the Keynote Speaker. Brig. Gen. David E. Petersen (USAF Ret.) Executive Vice President of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, will be the MC of this historic event.

To learn more about how you can help honor San Antonio’s aviation and aerospace history and STEM teachers we invite you to revisit this web page and the DHF Facebook page where we will post further updates as plans progress.

For information on the mission of the San Antonio Aviation and Aerospace Hall of Fame and its cooperating organizations, visit the SAAAHoF web page.

To view the Hall of Fame event history we invite you to visit the 2016, 2017 , 2018 and 2019 pages.