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In 1913 Freeman was an instructor for the Wright Company at Mineola, Long Island, New York, and through 1914 continued as an instructor, with occasional exhibition flying for the company. He was retained as an instructor at Mineola in the spring of 1915 after the Wright interests were sold to an Eastern group.

In 1916 he became associated with Howard Rinehart in a private aviation enterprise, owned by E. A. Deeds and C. F. Kettering on the site which later became McCook Field, near Dayton, Ohio. There he assisted in the training of a number of students, including many Canadians sent there under contract with the United States Government. 

When the Dayton-Wright Company was formed in April, 1917, he became a member of their staff of pilots to do test, demonstration and acceptance flying on World War I planes. He did a considerable amount of flying at the various Government Training Fields on acceptance tests of the Dayton-Wright-built Standard training planes during the year. In the late fall and winter months of 1917-1918 he began test flying the first Dayton-Wright-built DH-4 airplane with Liberty engines. After production started on these, early in 1918, he became a member of the staff of acceptance pilots flying new airplanes as they came out of the factory.

On June 27, 1918, while taking off with a new DH on its first flight, he crashed, sustained fatal injuries and lived only a few minutes, dying in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. He was buried at Flushing, Long Island, New York. He had been married only four weeks before the accident. 

Small and slightly built, with a quiet soft-spoken, pleasing personality and an ever-cheerful disposition, he was loved and respected by all who had the food fortune to know him. an [[An]] active, skillful pilot who loved to fly, he gave his life to the cause in World War I. 

The name of Arch Freeman appears on the Wright Memorial Plaque, along with the many other pioneer airmen who learned to fly at 
    
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