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| Name: | Oliver Colin "Boots" Le Boutillier | Country: | United States | Rank: | Captain | Service: | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force | Squadrons: | 9N (RNAS) 209 (RAF) | Victories: | 10 | Born: | 1895 | Place of Birth: | | Died: | 12 May 1983 | Place of Death: | Las Vegas, Nevada |
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| | Le Boutillier participated in the dogfight in which Manfred von Richthofen was killed. When the war ended, he returned to the United States where he became a skywriter and gave Amelia Earhart her first lesson on twin engined aircraft. As a Hollywood stunt pilot, Le Boutillier appeared in eighteen movies including "Hell's Angels." In all, he had 19,000 hours of flight time when his flying career finally ended. |
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