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During 1920, Acosta did considerable flying for the JL Aircraft Company of New York. This firm was owned and established by wealthy J.M. Larson to import the all-metal German Junkers 8 passenger monoplane. This plane had a low wing with a 48-foot span, an enclosed cabin and was powered by 6-cylinder 185 h.p. B.M.W. engines; it became known as the JL-6 monoplane. Acosta established several flight records and made a number of notable cross-country flights with the JL-6 that year. May 20th through 30th, he made numerous demonstration flights in this machine at the Pan-American Aeronautic Congress at Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he carried many distinguished passengers. On June 1st, at New York, he set a 5-passenger American altitude record of 20,600 feet with a JL-6. On June 27th, Acosta flew with three passengers from Omaha, Nebraska, to Lancaster, Pennsylvania; 1,200 miles nonstop in 12 hours, 52 minutes, for a new American passengers distance record. He had intended to fly into New York but extremely bad weather forced him down.