Lester E. Holt (1889 – 1918)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.
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.Some newspaper accounts of Holt's crash(examples:The Watertown News, The Bisbee Daily Review, The New York Sun
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External links Earlyaviators.com