Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition

The Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition was a competition held in the United States in 1929 to promote the design of safer airplanes. Officially, it aimed "to achieve a real advance in the safety of flying through improvement in the aerodynamic characteristics of heavier-than-air craft, without sacrificing the good, practical qualities of the present-day aircraft."

The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics offered a prize of $USD 100,000 for the most outstanding aircraft design, plus five prizes of $10,000 for safety innovations. The competition was announced on April 20, 1927 to run between September 1, 1927 until October 31, 1929 unless the judges deemed that the competition objectives had been met earlier.

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