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[[cross out]] Coros. [[cross out]] U.S. Army School at Rockwell Field North, North Island, San Diego [[cross out]] California [[cross out]].
After the war, in early 1919, Hubbard returned to Seattle and again started to fly for Boeing.  During an Exposition at Vancouver, B.C. retiah aleceselia [[?]] [[cross out]] Canada, [[cross out]] in early March, [[cross out]] they [[cross out]] the managers wished to have a sack of mail flown to the United States [[cross out]] during the event [[cross out]] and asked Boeing if he would fly a plane there to bring the mail back. As a result, in late February, Hubbard pilot a Type [[cross out]] Model [[cross out]] "C" twin-float Boeing seaplane [[cross out]] Hydro [[cross out]] to Vancouver, carrying Boeing as passenger.  On the way they ran into a storm and Hubbard alighted [[cross out]] made a landing anded [[cross out]] at Anacortes where they remained for the night.  The next day the flew on and alighted [[cross out]] landed [[cross out]] at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club.  On March 3rd [[cross out]] d [[cross out]] 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 were [[cross out]] was [[cross out]] to establish later.
That spring Hubbard conducted initial and development tests of the first Type [[cross out]] Model [[cross out]] B-1 Boeing biplane flying boat.  In 1920 he bought the B-1 flying boat 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 this time he assisted in [[cross out]] the [[cross out]] flight testing [[cross out]] of [[cross out]] several of the early Types [[cross out]] models [[cross out]] of Boeing [[cross out]] Navy [[cross out]] airplane and seaplane seed by the army and Navy for purposes training rides in the Navy and other military [[cross out]] planes.
Early in 1926 Hubbard [[cross out]] left Boeing and [[cross out]] became the Fokker West Coast representative at Los Angeles, California.  Late that fall Boeing induced him to return to Seattle when some expanded planes [[cross out]] larger operations plans [[cross out]] were in progress.  The company put in a bid for carrying mail from Chicago to San Francisco and designed [[cross out]] planned [[cross out]] to use [[cross out]] a [[cross out]] new Pratt and Whitney wasp-engined [[cross out]] WASP powered [[cross out]] planes. [[cross out]] to put on the run, and [[cross out]] Hubbard assisted in the preparations [[cross out]] for this venture. [[cross out]] Boeing was award the contracted on January 28, [[cross out]] th [[cross out]] 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 mail.  The line branched out that year and Hubbard was sent to Salt Lake City, Utah, to oversee operatives there.
On December 18, [[cross out]] th [[cross out]] 1928, Hubbard suddenly became ill and was rushed to a

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