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plane and field, which seemed to create considerable enthusiasm at that time.
      At the beginning of World War I Bergdoll reportedly applied for a commission in the Army Air Service but was turned down. Soon after he was drafted for military service, which he resented, and went into hiding for two years. When found, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment but escaped and flew to Germany where he remained until 1939. At that time he returned to the United States, surrendered and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment, being released from Leavenworth in February, 1944.
      Bergdoll sold his estate near West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1946, and moved to Virginia near Richmond, where he continued to reside until he passed away at age 72 on January 27, 1966, at Westbrook Psychiatric Hospital. He was survived by his wife, from whom he was divorced, and eight children. His Model B Wright plane is now in the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Write pilot Marshall E. Reid made fourteen straightaway hops in it at the Camden, New Jersey Airport on December 17, 1934, before it was placed on exhibition.
      Flying Pioneer Grover C. Bergdoll was a wealthy sportsman pilot who took up flying purely for pleasure, and did an unusually thorough job of it. He established a splendid flying field and facilities, putting his plane to daily use, taking up hundreds of passengers, demonstrating the airplane as a sport vehicle, and established an enviable record in the care and skill he exercised in its operation. It is recorded that he never had an accident during his flying career. While he later became nationally known as a "notorious draft dodger," his name must be well recorded in American aviation history. His name also appears on the Wright Memorial Plaque at Dayton, Ohio, as one of the original Wright Students.