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In 1927-1929 Copland became Vice-President and General Manager of Interstate Airways, Incorporated, Hartford, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts, on sales work as Travelair Dealer, service, charter and flight school operations. He was then also a Director of the Aeronautics Department of the Hillyer Institute, Hartford, Connecticut. 

From 1929 to 1932 Copland was District Manager of the New England Division of the Curtiss Flying Service in charge of Curtiss primary flying school operations. During that time he also organized the first Civilian Flight Instructors School on Grosse Isle, Michigan, a summer camp flying school at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and the first scheduled airline between Boston, Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, using Ford tri-motored planes, and was supervisor of sixteen eastern Curtiss-Wright flying bases.

In 1933 he was Operations Manager and Chief Pilot for the New England Autogiro Company, Boston, Massachusetts, selling Pitcairn Autogiros, service, and parts [[strikethrough]] etc. [[/striketrhough]]. In 1934 to 1936 Copland turned to aviation consulting activities, carrying on various assignments including an air-age survey for Harvard University. He piloted a Curtiss Condor seaplane to Colombia, South America for the Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation and instructed some Colombian flying officers. Following this he demonstrated a twin-engine bomber flying boat in China and Japan for the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. He also supervised airport construction and gave educational aviation lectures for the Massachusetts Committee for Aeronautics, as well as serving as Operations Advisor for United Airlines at Newark Airport, New Jersey. 

[[strikethrough]] Copland continued in these activities and [[/strikethrough]] In 1941 Copland was a member of a group that developed and put into operation the first United States airway traffic control system, between Newark, New Jersey and Cleveland, Ohio. During this time he also became Aviation Editor of the Hartford Times and Boston Transcript newspapers. These activities also led him into supervisory work for the Civil Aeronautics Administration where he first managed the A.T.C. Center in Detroit, Michigan, later transferring to Fort Worth, Texas, as Regional Supervisor. 

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