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building for the Wright Company factory was completed and all shop operations were moved there.
In the early spring of 1911 the Government started sending young military officers to Dayton for flight instruction. Among the first of these were Lieutenants Arnold and Milling. When their training was completed they were sent to College Park, Maryland, a flying field, bringing a dismantled plane in a boxcar to start a Government flying school for instruction of military students. The Wright Company sent Conover along to assist in assembling the plane, carry out maintenance service operations, and train new mechanics. This was the first of many assignments away from the factory that Conover was to receive. At College Park Lieutenant Milling taught Conover to fly while riding as a passenger on test work.
After the College Park assignment Conover continued shop and engine test work at the Dayton factory, went as mechanic for the exhibition pilots on the road and was at College Park on numerous occasions to assist in putting new Wright planes through Government acceptance tests. While at Dayton he helped develop the Wright Hydros and flying boats, and through late 1913 and into 1914 served as mechanic for Wright school instructor Howard Rinehart on exhibition dates for booking agent J.S. Berger. 
In March, 1915, Rinehart and Conover left Dayton for Mexico to fly for and deliver a shipment of Wright planes to Francisco Villa during the Villa-Carranza uprising. They returned to Dayton in May to resume their normal duties.
During October, 1915, Orville Wright sold his interest in the Wright Company to an eastern syndicate and retired from the business. The Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation was then formed in New York and for test, flying and instruction took over the Hempstead Plains flying field near Mineola, Long Island.