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the Aero Club of Southern California. He continued to fly his Bleriot monoplane at Dominguez Field during June, and on July 4th flew over Los Angeles and Long Beach trailing a large American flag behind the plane. Shortly after this he left on another exhibition tour of the Middle West.

July 30th and 31st he flew at Battineau [[Bottineau]], North Dakota, making two flights a day and raced a motorcyclist. August 5th to 7th he was at Harvey, North Dakota. Moving southward, Champion flew at Marysville, Comanche, and Ryan, Oklahoma, during August; at Loveland, California, September 3rd to 5th,; then back to the Dawson County Fair in Nebraska September 9th to 15th. September 15th and 26th he was at Richland Center, Wisconsin, then to Charlotte, Michigan, September 30th to October 2rd. Again moving south he flew at Tuscumbia, Alabama, October 8th to 11th, then to Gieger [[Geiger]], Georgia for four days beginning October 15th. From there he went to Brenham, Texas, for an exhibition October 21st to 24th, his last date of the 1913 season, again without breakage of any sort.

From Texas his plane was shipped to Chicago where Champion entered Mercy Hospital for leg surgery due to an injury suffered about a year before, caused by the accidental discharge of a shotgun. Remaining in Chicago, he had to enter the hospital again in April due to a setback in the correction of his leg trouble.

In June, 1914, Champion started flying his monoplane again at Cicero Field, Chicago. At Cicero he began carrying passengers, then on July 4th he filled an exhibition date at Tarkio, Missouri. He continued exhibition flying with his Bleriot machine that season through the midwestern states, Cicero Field being his home base.

In February, 1915, he formed the Frank Champion Aeroplane Company at Overland Park, Kansas City, Missouri, to build planes, sell parts and accessories for aircraft, including engines and propellers. Soon he also formed a flying school, and advertised for exhibition work. In April Andre Haupert, former