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Saginaw grounds Fair where a fair was in progress to Flint to a coming home celebration, carrying mail from the mayor of Saginaw to the mayor of Flint.

On October 11th McGee flew from Saginaw to Ludington, Michigan, nonstop 160 miles, for an exhibition there, after which he returned to Saginaw following the Pere Marquette Railroad [[cross out]] R. [[cross out]] tracks.  On October 29th he flew to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to witness the Michigan-Cornell football game from the air and entertained the crowds with his aerial [[cross out]] antics [[cross out]] stunts.  Returning, he flew from Ann Arbor to Flint, carrying a student, Miss Ester Lamb, as a passenger.  During the flight a bad snow storm was encountered but a safe landing was made.

During 1916 McGee often made brief flying visits to the O. E. Williams Flying Field at Fenton, Michigan, and during the late fall was engaged as an instructor at the Williams school assisting Al Boshek.  There on January 13, 1917, McGee obtained Pilot License No. 648.  In February, 1917, he offered his services to the government but was rejected due to a physical disability.  He was still flying some at Fenton for Williams at that time.  During the early part of 1917 season he was unable to do any flying due to illness but started again in late July, making flights at the Midland County Fair.

As the World War I clouds thickened McGee still wanted to serve his country in some manner and through negotiations arranged to become an instructor and test pilot at Selfridge Field near Mt. Clemens, Michigan.  On September 19th he flew his own plane from Saginaw to Selfridge Field to take up his new duties.  There he started practicing on Curtiss JN-4 training planes which included acrobatic flying.  On October 10th he plunged [[crossed out]] to his death [[/crossed out]] into Lake St. Clair while practicing tailspins at 3,000 feet.

Field operations immediately sent speed boats to the spot where the plane had disappeared and parts of the plane were found, but there was no trace of McGee.  Since there was a strong current at that point [[cross out]] the [[cross out]] more wreckage of the plane was not found until October 12th, but again there was no trace of his body.  On October 23rd official [[crossed out]] Government [[/crossed out]] search for his body was abandoned.  Nearly two months after the crash, on December 3rd, his body was found in the Lake St. Clair

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