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Company in Saginaw, Michigan, and became designer, vice president and co-pilot. At that time he was also manager of the Saginaw Airport. Paramount brought out the "Cabinaire," a 4-seat cabin biplane, powered by either a Wright 5-cylinder, 165 h.p. or Warner 7-cylinder, 145 h.p radial engine. They built about a dozen planes, then the depression ended the project in the early thirties.

In 1928 Carr was also connected with the Detroit, Saginaw, and Northam Airways, a small airline project that operated a schedule three times a week. About this time Carr designed and built the "Carr Special," a low-wing racing plane using an OX-5 Curtiss engine that did 156 mph. With this plane he won many race events around the country in the early thirties. Carr also did some sky writing for the Ford Motor Company and a Detroit ice cream concern.

From 1934-1936 he was a pilot for Central Airlines, stationed at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Early in 1937 Carr conducted initial flight tests of a special plane for photographic work, called the "Explorer", which was built by Talbert Abrams of Lansing, Michigan. After that Carr left for Canton, China, to deliver a tai-motored Stinson plane to South Western Airlines. There he flew the China route from Canton, Nanking to Hanoi. Indo-China, until 1938, and trained some Chinese pilots to fly the plane during that time.

In 1938-1940 he was test pilot for Barkley-Grow Aircraft Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, during their development of a twin-motored, all-metal, transport plane. Following this, Carr joined the Michigan Aeronautics Commission at Lansing, and was assigned to pilot the governor's plane.

In World War II Carr became a major and the Air Force delegated him to serve as personal pilot to high government, political and military personnel in Washington, D.C.

After the war Carr returned to the Michigan State Aeronautics Commission where he served as aeronautical superintendent until he retired January 1, 1963, after forty-nine years of active association in aviation and reportedly over 25,000 hours of flying time.