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Germany, Belgium and France. He continued in this service after the Armistice searching for mines, each patrol lasting from four to six hours. On November 21st he escorted captured German submarines into Harwich Harbor, Great Britain. 

In May, 1919 he was transferred from No. 231 Squadron to No. 4 Communications Station. This involved carrying mail and passengers from England to Holland.

Copland returned to the United States on June 29th, 1919, and from July to December made his headquarters at Morrow Field, Detroit, Michigan as Chief Pilot for the Universal Aviation Company. He then purchased an army-surplus Curtiss JN-4, OX-5 engined biplane and started carrying passengers, exhibition flying, aerial advertising and flight instruction. During these activities he flew payrolls out of Tampico, Mexico for the Huestica Oil Company.

During 1921 Copland operated a company in his own name in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and had seaplane bases at Hartford and Indian Neck, Connecticut and Daytona Beach, Florida. During that year he made a very notable flight from Maine to Florida advertising Lenox [[strikethrough]] Hack Saws [[/strikethrough]] Hacksaws for the American Saw and Manufacturing Company. On this flight he used an Aeromarine A-39-B biplane with Curtiss OXX-6 engine. This plane had a special checkerboard paint job to attract attention. This operation merged into the Aeromarine Airways, Incorporated, New York to Florida, and was the first international scheduled airline [[strikethrough]] including [[/strikethrough]] included for passenger carrying. It operated between Key West and Havana, Cuba.

In 1922 Copland was Operations Manager and Chief Pilot for the Mayer Aircraft Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on aircraft sales, service, charter flights and instruction. In 1923 and 1924 he was President and General Manger of Atlantic Airways, Incorporated, Boston, Massachusetts, doing marine aircraft sales work, service, charter flights, and a flight school.

In 1925-1927 he was General Manager and Chief Pilot of the Copland-Brinton Air Service, Hartford, Connecticut on sales, service, charter [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] aerial photography and flight school work. [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] This was the official flying school for the Yale University Flying Club. There Copland taught Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut to become the first United States Governor to solo. 

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