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Beachey's aviation equipment was soon offered for sale and Katherine Stinson bought it for the Gnome engine. Knowing that Mix was thoroughly familiar with it she included him to help her get the Beachey material out of storage and shipped to Chicago where he installed the Gnome engine in one of Miss Stinsons's planes. He was her mechanic for six months, then for fifteen months was general foreman first for the Sloane Aeroplane Corporation, then later the Standard Aircraft Corporation, both in the East.

In 1916 General William Mitchell induced Mix to take a Civil Service examination for Signal Corps aircraft and engine inspector. Mix passed the test, General Mitchell signed his papers, and sent him to the newly established Langley Field at Hampton, Virginia. Mix remained in the Signal Corps until 1929 in various capacities, including foreman of the final assembly and superintendent of the hangers at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, from 1917 through World War I.

Mix left the service in 1929 to become inspector of aircraft and engines for Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Glenview, Illinois. While there in 1933 he had charge of assembling and preparing the items for the air show at the Chicago World's Fair.

From 1934 to 1937 he was inspector of planes and engines for both Bell Aircraft and the Curtiss-Wright Corporation at Buffalo, New York. In 1937 he became a Navy inspector at Gunman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Bethpage, Long Island, New York, until he retired in 1953. He then moved to Center Moriches, Long Island, built a retirement home and proceeded to live with the memories of a very active lifetime of the travel and adventure he had dreamed of in his youth. Mix was a member of the Early Birds and the Long Island Early Flyers Club.

Over the years he received many awards and citations for his aviation service, one of them a beautifully framed 52nd Fighter Group United States