Joseph Leo Schneider

Joseph Leo Schneider, the oldest active pilot and certified flight instructor in the United States as of 1997, died after a brief illness on April 14 at the age of 99 years, nine months. Schneider received his pilot's license in 1939 and began instructing fighter pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps in...

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