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  Copland returned to the United States on June 29, 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 as well as 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 hacksaws for the American Saw and Manufacturing Company. On this flight he used an Aeromarine A-39-B biplane with a Curtiss OXX-6 engine. This plane had a special checkerboard paint job to attract attention. This operation merged into the Aeromarine Airways, Inc., New York to Florida, and was the first international scheduled airline 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; managing aircraft sales, service, charter flights and instruction. In 1923 and 1924 he was President and General Manager of Atlantic Airways, Inc., of Boston, Massachusetts, and was in charge of marine aircraft sales work, service, charter flights, and the flight school. 
  In 1925-1927, he was General Manager and Chief Pilot of the Copland-Brinton Air Service, Hartford, Connecticut, conducting sales, service, charter, aerial photography and flight school work. This was the official flying school for the Yale University Flying Club. There, Copland taught Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut to fly and he became the first Governor in the United States to solo. 
  In 1927-1929, Copland became Vice-President and General Manager of Interstate Airways, Inc., of Hartford, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts.

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