Air Marshal Sir Richard Bruce Bolt, KBE, CB, DFC, AFC (16 July 1923 – 27 July 2014) was a bomber pilot in the Second World War and a senior Royal New Zealand Air Force officer in the post-war years.
During the Second World War, Bolt served with the Pathfinder Force, flying the Avro Lancaster bomber.
During the ANZUS crisis of 1984–85, Bolt was one of 16 senior retired officers and civil servants who wrote protesting the Fourth Labour Government's anti-nuclear policy.
[3] Bolt part-owned a racehorse, Kotare Chief, which won the 1987 Auckland Cup as a nine-year-old, at Ellerslie.
[7] In the 1959 Queen's Birthday Honours, the then Squadron Leader Bolt was awarded the Air Force Cross.