Viktor Plahte (pilot)

Sergeant Viktor Møinichen Plahte (1911-1943) was a Norwegian aviator who died as an allied navigator in training during World War II.

He was born in Norway and in 1938 studied at the University of Maine. He enrolled in the Royal Norwegian Air Force in exile in Toronto, Canada, and trained as a navigator. Late in 1943 he was ordered to an Operational Training Unit in United Kingdom. He died when the Wellington bomber he was in crashed during a night manoeuvre over England in December 1943.

He was the son of Viktor Plahte, a Norwegian banker. In 1950, a road in Bærum was named Viktor Plahtes vei after Plahte. He is buried at Haslum Cemetery.