Roland Louis Ernest Burton AFC and Bar (known as Monty Burton) (18 May 1918 – 28 April 1999) was a British pilot who won the 1953 London to Christchurch air race.
Flight Lieutenant Burton became the first man[1] to fly from London to New Zealand in under 24 hours, when with his navigator Flight Lieutenant Don Gannon he won the 1953 London to Christchurch air race in a Canberra PR3 in 1953, winning the Britannia Trophy, now in the RAF Museum, Hendon.
[2][3] Burton married Joan Evans (1942) and they had two daughters and a son.
One of his daughters Jocelyn Burton became a successful silver and goldsmith.
Burton retired to France where he died on 29 April 1999.