FAI Aerobatics Commission (CIVA)

This trophy was donated by the South African Aero Club in 1986 to be presented to the winner of the Final Freestyle Programme at the World Aerobatic Championships. It is named after the late German Aerobatic Champion Manfred Strössenreuther, a consistent medal winner at World and European Championships in the early 1980's, who was particularly skilled in this flight.

Sadly this lovely trophy became lost after presentation to US pilot Zach Heffley at the 2007 World Championships, that year held at Grenada in Spain. Despite wide-ranging searches no trace of it has ever been found. Arrangements are currently being made by CIVA to create a replacement trophy.

List of Winners

1986 - Petr Jirmus, Czechloslovakia
1988 - Patrick Paris, France
1990 - Jurgis Kairis, USSR
1994 - Jurgis Kairis, Lithuania
1996 - Patrick Paris, France
1998 - Roland Dominique, France
2000 - Peter Besenyei, Hungary
2001 - Klaus Schrodt, Germany
2005 - Klaus Schrodt, Germany
2007 - Zachery Heffley, United States
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2009 - Renaud Ecalle, France
2011 - Rob Holland, United States
2013 - Rob Holland, United States
2015 - Rob Holland, United States
2017 - Rob Holland, United States