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From the Flying Biographies of Harold E. Morehouse

U.S. Army school at Rockwell Field, North Island, San Diego. 

After the war, in early 1919, Hubbard returned to Seattle and again started to fly for Boeing. During an Exposition at Vancouver, B.C., Canada in early March they wished to have a sack of mail flown to the United States and asked Boeing if he would fly a plane there to bring the mail back. As a result Hubbard piloted a Type "C" twin-float Boeing seaplane to Vancouver, carrying Boeing as a passenger. On the way they ran into a storm and Hubbard made a landing at Anacortes where they remained for the night. The next day they flew on and landed at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club. On March 3d Hubbard and Boeing returned to Seattle, making a stop at Edmonds for fuel. This flight was the forerunner of a Seattle- Vancouver mail route that Boeing and Hubbard was to establish. 

That spring Hubbard conducted initial and development tests of the first Type B-1 Boeing biplane flying boat. In 1920 he bought the B-1 flying boat and contracted with the Post Office Department to carry mail from Seattle to Vancouver on a regular schedule, but remained in the employ of the Boeing Company as a pilot until 1926. During that time he assisted in the flight testing of several of the early types of Boeing airplanes and seaplanes used by the Army and purposes. 

Early in 1926 Hubbard left Boeing and became the Fokker west coast representative at Los Angeles, California. Late that fall Boeing persuaded him to return to Seattle when some expended plans were in progress. The company put in a bid for carrying mail from Chicago to San Francisco and designed Pratt and Whitney Wasp- Engined planes to be put on the run. Hubbard assisted in the preparations. Boeing was awarded the contract on January 28th, 1927. 

The Boeing Air Transport was organized as a separate company and Hubbard was made Vice President. The firm prospered from the start and by the end of 1927 passengers were being carried in addition to meil. The line branched out that year and Hubbard was sent to Salt Lake City, to oversee operations there. On December 18th, 1928 Hubbard suddenly became ill and was rushed to a 

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a lot of crossing out and rewriting. Didn't know where to include the past crossed out words or not.