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Certificate No. 40 on November 3, 1915. He finished out the 1915 season at Atlantic City after reportedly having carried over 3,000 passengers without an accident. 

In the spring of 1916 Jaquith resumed his passenger business at Atlantic City. Early in the year he was selected for possible service in the First Aero Squadron to Mexico, but this did not materialize. On July 27th he flew from Essington, Pennsylvania, to Atlantic City via Cape May, 140 miles in two hours and ten minutes. In September he considered starting a passenger service between Atlantic City and Philadelphia, and that fall introduced the sport of hunting ducks from the air for his passengers and announced plans to open a flying school at St. Augustine, Florida, for the winter.

During the spring of 1917 Jaquith flew from Atlantic City to Miami, Florida, in easy stages. Later in the spring he was instructor for the Yale Coast Patrol Unit at Mastic, Long Island, [[strikethrough]] New York [[/strikethrough]] teaching instructors. On June 2nd he flew from Atlantic City to Mastic, Long Island, 225 miles in one hour [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] fifty-five minutes, carrying a passenger. During June, he and a passenger flew to a fire ten miles away on Long Island and helped extinguish it. Through the remainder of World War I he taught Coast Patrol instructors and organized Patrol Units.

In the spring of 1919 he returned to Atlantic City and resumed passenger work with Beryl Kendrick [[strikethrough]] to form [[/strikethrough]] forming the Kendrick-Jaquith Company. [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] Early that year he obtained Army and Navy flying License No. 306. In late May, Kendrick was killed in an unfortunate accident at Atlantic City during the Second Pan-American Aeronautic Congress putting an untimely end to the flying partnership.

Jaquith evedently remained in Atlantic City that year, then in 1921 organized a Naval Air Unit for Uruguay and flew the first foreign airmail contract from New Orleans to Pilottown, Louisiana, near the point where the Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

From 1921 to 1928 Jaquith was engaged in designing, building, experimental development activities and carrying passengers. In 1929 he was the Vice-President and General Manager of Airvia Transport Company, operating a 16-passenger Savoia-

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