10 Facts About Larry Hillblom

Larry Lee Hillblom was an American businessman and, alongside Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn, co-founded the shipping company DHL.

Larry Hillblom was born on May 12,1943, and raised in Kingsburg, California.

Larry Hillblom attended Reedley College and Fresno State, eventually earning a law degree at the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and briefly clerked for San Francisco based attorney Melvin Belli.

Larry Hillblom did so by purchasing tickets for airline passengers who could take 350 pounds of accompanied baggage, and sending the Matson shipping documents with them.

In 1969 Larry Hillblom co-founded DHL; the company was later transformed into a general air courier, and Larry Hillblom's wealth expanded to several billion dollars.

Larry Hillblom was an aircraft enthusiast and owned a number of vintage planes.

Larry Hillblom's seaplane crashed on May 21,1995, on a flight from Pagan Island to Saipan.

The bodies of the pilot, Robert Long, and a business partner were found, but Larry Hillblom's body was never recovered.

Larry Hillblom's will stated that the University of California, San Francisco, would receive his estate, and did not specify any children in the 1982 will.

Larry Hillblom had resided in the CNMI, whose probate law recognises the first right of all children to a share of their father's estate, notwithstanding any will to the contrary.