Oliver C. LeBoutillier 1895-1983

 

NEW MEMBERS      OLIVER C. LeBOUTILLIER, 117 Park Road, Burlingame, Calif. Airplane pilot 566 of the year 1916, soloed by Howard Rinehart at the Wright Company's school at Mineola about the time the Glenn Martin added his name to the company. He's still flying, transport license 710 and holds forth at Mills Field, San Francisco. from CHIRP - AUGUST, 1936 - LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - NUMBER 20. courtesy of Steve Remington - CollectAir

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Oliver C. LeBoutillier +aviation", using the Google search engine, (10-12-03), you will find about 50 links. Among the most helpful are the following.

WW I ACE      You will find a comprehensive biography of Captain Oliver LeBoutillier and artifacts on the Kaiser's Bunker website. You may access the site by clicking on the title above.      I heartily recommend that you browse the entire site by clicking on: Kaiser's Bunker      It offers an extensive collection of artifacts from Imperial Germany 1860 to 1918, the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) 1914 to 1919, and the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) 1914 to 1918.

ACE OF ACES      This page on K O Ecklund's AeroFiles website offers a unique bit of information about Oliver's film career. Reportedly he flew some of the sequences in the 1933 film. You can access the site by clicking on the title above.

Discovery Channel :: Red Baron -- Expert Q&A      This page on the Discovery Channel's website offers an answer to a viewer's question as to the role which Oliver played during the encounter in which the Red Baron was shot down. You can access the site by clicking on the title above.

Oliver C. LeBoutillier died in 1983 From The Early Birds of Aviation Roster of Members January 1, 1993   Editor's Note: If you have any more information on this Early Bird, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper   Back