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Orient on another exhibition tour. After flying in Manila, China, and Japan they were back in New York on March 25, 1912. Hammond gave up flying that spring. Baldwin then taught Cecil Peoli and Horace Kimmerle to fly. Baldwin had apparently given up active flying at that time and abandoned the airship entirely. Peoli flew some exhibitions in 1912. In July of that year Baldwin bought land and some buildings at Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, New York, and in September moved his entire operation there. He continued to have his planes built by Witteman Brothers and carried on further advertising of his planes, Hall-Scott engines, his rubberized fabric and his flying field at Oakwood Heights through 1913, and Peoli did some flying for him that year.

In March, 1914, Baldwin signed a 3-year contract with the newly formed Connecticut Aircraft Company of New Haven as chief of construction operations, but retained his aviation camp on Staten Island. The firm planned to build airships and Baldwin left for a tour of Europe to study aerial developments there.

In May, 1915, the Connecticut Aircraft Company was awarded a Navy Contract for a dirigible. Designated the D-1, it was 175 feet long, 35 feet in diameter and was powered by a 160 h.p. engine driving two propellers. Baldwin designed and supervised the construction of the dirigible. In December he left the firm to become associated with Curtiss in the newly formed flying school at Newport News, Virginia, and he remained there until April, 1917, when he was commissioned Captain T. S. Baldwin, Signal Corps, U.S. Army. In June, 1918, he was promoted to Major, serving as Chief of the Balloon Section at Akron, Ohio.

After his discharge from the Service in October, 1919, he remained in Akron as Manager of Balloon Production and Inspection at Goodyear. Later he moved to Buffalo, New York, where at age 65, he passed away on May 17, 1923, at Deaconess Hospital. Burial was in Arlington Cemetery, Washington D.C., with full military honors. He was a member of the Aero Club of America, Elks, Odd Fellows, and a Shriner.