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On September 3rd and 4th Gilpatric flew exhibitions for the company at Asbury Park, New Jersey, and immediately following this flew in a fall weekend meet at Hempstead with Albert Heinrich, Harold Kantnor, William Piceller and G. Bellanca. 

That fall the Sloane Company was reorganized and the name changed to the Aircraft Company, Incorporated, of New York. Gilpatric was retained as company pilot and Charles Day came with the firm as designer. The firm immediately began the development of planes which later became the World War 1 Standard J-1 Trainers. Gilpatric assisted in the planning of these machines. 

About April 1, 1915, Gilpatric conducted the initial flight tests of the new plane. Called the Sloane-Day Military Tractor Biplane, it was powered by a 90 h.p. Kirkham engine and at once proved highly successful. Flight tests continued into May and that month the company name was again changed, this time to the Standard Aero Company. 

Gilpatric left about that time to become Chief Pilot for the Heinrich Aeroplane Company of nearby Baldwin, Long Island. He began flying their new Military Tractor Biplane with a 110 h.p. Gyro rotary engine. This was a temporary position while Albert Heinrich was in Italy on business. 

When Heinrich returned, about June 1st, Gilpatric left to become an instructor with the Canadian Curtiss Company at Toronto, training Canadian Air Cadets. This was a large pre-World-War-1 military operation, managed by former Curtiss pilot J.A.D. McCurdy. Also instructing there were T.C. Macaulay Victor Vernon, Victor Carlstrom, S.S. Pierce, Steve McGordon and Bert Acosta. Gilpatric put in long hours that summer and on one day graduated five students. One one occasion he set a training record when he was in the air eight and one-half hours, landing and changing students every 12 minutes. This activity continued until the late fall of 1915 when Gilpatric returned to his home in New York, to spent the winter. he became a ember of the Aero Club of America on November 10, 1915. 

Transcription Notes:
Comma between "Macaulay" and "Victor." Spent should be spelled "Spend." "he" should be capitalized. Ember should be spelled member.