Captain Allan Boyce was a founder member of the Air Pilots New Zealand Region and has been a member of the Company (in New Zealand) since 1989.  He was elected to the New Zealand Regional Committee in 1992 and has since served in one capacity or another continuously. Allan is also an active member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Royal Institute of Navigation, and the New Zealand Helicopter Association. His undergraduate degree was in aviation instructional design and crew resource management, and his Masters degree was in aviation management systems.

Between 1993 and 1997, he was the Regional Technical Director and then succeeded as Chairman of the Region, which post he held until 2001.  Following his term as Chairman, he continued as a member of the Regional Committee while also being elected an Assistant to the Court in 2003.  He served on the Court for 12 years, during which time he attended almost every meeting in London. Following then untimely passing of the New Zealand Region Chairman in 2012, Allan was asked to fill the position for a second term. In 2016 Allan retired from active professional flying after fifty years as a pilot, first as an RNZAF fast jet pilot and latterly as a long-haul airline pilot. He held an NZ CAA Flight Examiner (Airline) rating on three aircraft types. 

In 2019, he was ‘persuaded’ into again becoming Chairman of the New Zealand Region, a post he retained until 2025 when he felt he had to retire from active involvement in the Region.  Allan has therefore enjoyed 37 continuous years of service to the Company as an active and senior member in the NZ Region, and also on the Court - a remarkable and significant record.

Allan worked on the extension of Boeing 767 ETOPS and has been actively involved with the annual Mt Erebus accident commemorations, working tirelessly with others to promote and develop a physical memorial for the families affected. He also played a role in influencing legislation to protect aircraft flight recorder information for safety purposes. He has been a regular representative of the Company at the New Zealand Aviation Federation, which has helped give prominence to the work done by those members of the Company in New Zealand.

Allan Boyce’s record of service to the Company is exemplary and has had a direct profound influence on the success of both the New Zealand Region and the Company as a whole.  In recognition of his lifetime of outstanding contribution to New Zealand aviation, he is eminently worthy of the Jean Batten Memorial Award for 2025.

1992/93  Henry (Harry) Bielby Esq

1993/94  Captain A G (Gorden) Vette

1995  not awarded

1995/96  Raymond Gilbert Mulqueen Esq

1996/97  Air Cdre Stuart Mclntyre

1998  not awarded

1998/99  Ossie James

1999/2000  Captain Stuart Julian

2000/01  John William Reid MBE

 2002  not awarded

2002/03  Captain Bryan Stephen Wyness BSc

2004  not awarded

2004/05  Ian Andrew Ritchie

2005/06  Maxwell Brooke Stevens

2007  not awarded

2007/08  William Ronald Tannock

2008/09  Sqn Ldr James Rankin

2009/10  Michael Edmund Murray

2011  not awarded

2011/12  Guyon Moncrieff Robertson

2012/13  Lewis John Jenkins

2013/14  William (Bill) Arthur Black MBE

2015  not awarded

2016  John Funnell MBE

2017 - 2018  not awarded

2019  Glyn Powell and Warren Denholm

2020  not awarded

2021  Sir Peter Jackson ONZ KNZM

2022  not awarded

2023  Wing Commander Gordon Ragg AFC RNZAF(Ret'd)

2024  John Cook