Felton Holt

{{Short description|Royal Air Force air vice marshal (1886–1931)}}

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| name = Felton Holt

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|02|23|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Westminster, London

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1931|04|23|1886|02|23|df=yes}}

| death_place = Westhampnett, Sussex

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| allegiance = United Kingdom

| branch = British Army (1903–1918)
Royal Air Force (1918–1931)

| serviceyears = 1903–1931

| rank = Air Vice Marshal

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| commands = Fighting Area (1931)
Central Flying School (1923–1925)
22nd Wing RFC (1917–1918)
16th Wing RFC (1916–1917)
No. 25 Squadron RFC (1915–1916)
No. 16 Squadron RFC (1915)

| battles = First World War

| awards = Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Distinguished Service Order
Mentioned in Despatches (2){{Cite web |title=F V Holt_P |url=http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Holt.htm |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=www.rafweb.org}}

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Air Vice Marshal Felton Vesey Holt, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CMG|DSO}} (23 February 1886 – 23 April 1931) was a squadron and wing commander in the Royal Flying Corps who became a brigadier general in the newly established Royal Air Force (RAF) just before the end of the First World War. During the inter-war years Holt remained in the RAF, serving in several staff appointments before becoming Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area.

Holt was killed in a flying accident not long after taking up his final appointment. He was flying in a de Havilland DH.60M Moth from RAF Tangmere to take him back to RAF Uxbridge when it crashed at Seahurst Park near Chichester, following a collision with an Armstrong Whitworth Siskin. Holt managed to get out of the aircraft, but his parachute did not open in time.{{s-start}}

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{{s-ttl|title=Officer Commanding No. 16 Squadron|years=February – July 1915}}

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{{s-ttl|title=Officer Commanding Home Defence Wing|years=June 1916 – February 1917}}

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{{s-bef|before=Edward Masterman}}

{{s-ttl|title=Commandant of the Central Flying School|years=1923–1925}}

{{s-aft|after=Wilfrid Freeman}}

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