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About November 1st Sloane announced that school was being moved to Dominguez Field, Los Angeles, California for the winter. After arriving there Sloane put on some free exhibitions to promote local interest, and on Thanksgiving Day Gilpatric established a new American Altitude Record with passenger of 5,000 feet, carrying Sloane student, J. F. Cogle. For this flight Gilpatric was given a handsome silver trophy by the Los Angeles Evening Herald. 

Gilpatric had a minor smashup there in January, but was not injured. On January 29th, 1913 he flew in the Los Angeles [[strikethrough]]M[[/strikethrough]]meet with Fred DeKor, Floyd Smith, Earl Daugherty, Knox Martin and Frank Bryant, and did exceedingly well, having entered all contests. At that time Sloane had also imported a small French-built Caudron single-seat monoplane with a 6-cylinder Anzani engine, and both Gilpatric and Bonney were flying it in exhibitions. The Sloane School had a sizable class of students, and Bonney and Gilpatric were busy with instruction. They also put on weekend exhibitions to promote interest. Gilpatric flew an exhibition at Fairfax Park, Los Angeles on March 2d and carried passengers over Los Angeles for more than two hours. He flew in a 3-day local meet at Dominguez April 18th to 20th.

That spring the school moved back to Long Island after graduating several students, and they were flying at Hempstead about June 1st. Gilpatric flew in a special Fourth of July [[strikethrough]] flying [[/strikethrough]] show there with Dyott, Kantner, Hild, Bonney and Kimerele. The Sloane school was active again that summer and fall and Gilpatric graduated four students in September. On October 13th he was in competition in the Round-Manhattan Race with Charles Niles, Tony Jannus, C.M. Wood and William Luckey who won the event, which was sponsored by the Aeronautical Society, while Gilpatric was fourth. Bonney left Sloane that year and Gilpatric was then Chief Pilot and Instructor for the firm.

The school closed that winter but opened again in late April, 1914. On April 14th Gilpatric was arrested as he landed in Central Park, New York City, when an oil leak forced him down while flying over the city. As a result the Aero Club revoked his flying license for a period due to infraction of rules. That spring the Sloane Company brought out a new Flying Boat and Gilpatric conducted flight tests, then an announcement was made that water-flying instruction would be given 

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