Oliver Le Boutillier

Name: Oliver Colin Le Boutillier
Country: United States
Rank: Captain
Service: Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force
Units: 9 Naval (RNAS) 209 (RAF)
Victories: 10
Date Of Birth: May 24 1894
Date Of Death: May 12 1983
Place of Death: Las Vegas, Nevada

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.