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That spring Kastory was flying for them again and all started to take flying instruction as soon as the school opened.  Pallissard operated the school that summer and taught a few students, including C. E. "Sinnie" Sinclair, who worked as a shop mechanic for flying instruction and was taught at the school.

Partridge and Keller again were busy building planes.  First they started a loop-type tractor biplane for Katherine Stinson to use in exhibition work.  It was completed in June, powered by the 80 [[strikethrough]] H.P. [[/strikethrough]] h.p. Gnome rotary engine formerly used by Lincoln Beachey, and Kastory tested this plane before it was delivered to Miss Stinson.  Following this a modified Curtiss-type loop pusher was built for Art Smith.  Frank Kastory flew tests and exhibitions for them that summer and they continued their flying practice.

Cicero was abandoned as a flying field during the fall of 1915, which forced Partridge and Keller to discontinue their shop activities until the spring of 1916 when they started operations in a hangar at the newly opened Ashburn Field, Chicago.  There they continued their shop and school using two planes, with Pallissard still running the school.  Both Partridge and Keller were flying actively but there is no record that they built any planes that spring, although they did continue repair and overhaul work.

In April, 1916, a movement was in progress to bring a U. S. Aviation Training Camp to Ashburn, and this was formally organized on June 29th.  On July 29th Partridge had a smashup at Ashburn when he was overcome by exhaust gas, lost control and crashed from about 100 feet, completely wrecking the plane, but he escaped with a bad scalp wound.  Since the field was being taken over as a Government flying field, their school was abandoned about mid-summer and in August Partridge flew some exhibitions.

The U. S. Army aviation training operations started in late October and both Partridge and Keller became civilian flying instructors there in November.  In late December Partridge was transferred to Memphis, Tennessee where the school was moved for the winter, and Keller was sent to Waco, Texas. During the period of World War I Partridge served as an instructor at Chicago, Memphis and Fairfield, Ohio, for a total of two years, three months.  Keller served at Chicago, Waco and Mount Clemens,

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