Lester E. Holt
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{{short description|American pioneer aviator}}
{{For|the American journalist and news anchor|Lester Holt}}
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| birth_date = August 26, 1889
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California
| death_date = June 29, 1918 (aged 28)
| death_place = Dayton, Ohio
| restingplace = Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois
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| occupation = pilot, instructor
| yearsactive = 1910–1918
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Lester E. Holt (1889 – 1918)[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29912208/lester-e_-holt Lester E. Holt; findagrave] was an American pioneer aviator and later an Army instructor. He trained in the Curtiss Model D pusher type of plane.{{cite news |title=Aviator Lester E. Holt makes two grand flights |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-paxton-record-aviator-lester-e-holt/125335581/ |access-date=26 May 2023 |work=The Paxton Record |date=3 October 1912 |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}}{{cite news |title=Aviator L.E. Holt has plenty of nerve |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-paxton-record-aviator-le-holt-has/125335775/ |access-date=26 May 2023 |work=The Paxton Record |date=14 November 1912 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}}
Death
In 1918 Holt was an Army flight instructor. He had been in the Army for four years. On June 30 at Dayton, Ohio, while flight testing an airplane, he crashed from a height of 1,200 feet. His body was crushed by the plane's engine.[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?state=&date1=1918&date2=1918&proxtext=Holt%2C+Lester+&x=0&y=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&rows=20&searchType=basic Some newspaper accounts of Holt's crash](examples:The Watertown News, The Bisbee Daily Review, The New York Sun{{cite news |title=Aviator meets death when his machine drops |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/springfield-news-sun-aviator-meets-death/125335637/ |access-date=26 May 2023 |work=Springfield News-Sun |date=30 June 1918 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}}{{cite news |title=Civilian flier is killed when airplane falls |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/dayton-daily-news-civilian-flier-is-kill/125335703/ |access-date=26 May 2023 |work=Dayton Daily News |date=30 June 1918 |pages=1, 6 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{open access}}
References
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External links
- [http://earlyaviators.com/eholt.htm Earlyaviators.com]
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Category:Accidental deaths in Ohio
Category:Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States