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[[stamp]] FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE [[/strikethrough]]

Model D single seater Heinrich monoplane, with a 30 H.P. Anzani engine. His progress was slow because they had only one plane and since it was a single seater, Page virtually taught himself from verbal ground instructions. On December 13, 1913 Page flew for his license which he passed with ease, and Certificate No. 279 was granted him, dated January 7, 1914.

At that time he had never driven an automobile, but did own a bicycle. After completing his flying course in December, 1913, Page joined the Moisant International Aviators as a mechanic, but later was transferred as a draftsman, where he remained until November, 1915 when he left to join The Aeromarine Plane and Motor Co. of Belleville, New Jersey, also as a draftsman. In July, 1916 he returned to The Heinrich Aeroplane Company, in Freeport, Long Island until December 13, 1917 when he left to join The Curtiss Engineering Corp. at Garden City, Long Island, also as a draftsman, where he remained throughout World War I.

Page left The Curtiss Corp. in September, 1919 and worked as a carpenter in Florida for about three months, then joined The America Trans-Oceanic Co., Inc. of New York as a mechanic and pilot. This firm started over-water airline operations after World War I with one H-16 Flying Boat with two Liberty engines, one HS2L Flying Boat with single Liberty engine and two Curtiss "Seagull" Flying Boats with Curtiss C-6 engines, purchased from government surplus. They were revised for passenger service and bases were established at Port Washington, Long Island and West Palm Beach, Florida, where Page joined them. Having spent most of the past six years on engineering work since he had taken flight instruction, he started with Trans-Oceanic first as mechanic and co-pilot, later becoming pilot in charge. Since the Volstead Act was in effect at that time, they soon developed a flourishing business flying dry vacationers to North Bimini, in the Bahama Islands group about fifty miles east of Miami. There a 110 room hotel had been built, with gambling casino and plush accomodations.

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