Keith Vincent Anderson
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| Born | Keith Vincent Anderson July 6, 1898 |
| Died | April 1929, aged 30 |
Keith Vincent Anderson (6 July 1898 – April 1929) was an Australian pioneer aviator. In 1927 Anderson and his co-pilot, "Bobby" Hitchcock, undertook a round-Australia flight. Anderson and Hitchcock died in 1929, after a forced landing in the desert, during the search for Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew, who had been forced to land in Western Australia on the first leg of a flight in the Southern Cross aircraft to London.