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In the early spring of 1915 Rinehart and Berger left for Monterey, Mexico, where they had contracted to deliver some planes and supply pilots for Villa in the Mexican conflict. Rinehart, Eugene Heth and Farnum Fish were to do the flying and they started operations about March 1st with three Wright planes, two Model "B"s and one HS fuselage type. Rinehart had many a hair-raising experience there, being shot at in the air by both sides. About May 1st he was back in Dayton where he and Walter Brookins taught a large class of students at the Wright School during the summer season. That class included Canadian, British and Japanese students. 

In mid-August Rinehart was sent to New York City to assist in establishing the Hudson-Wright School using a new Wright flying boat. The regualr pilot there was A. B. Gaines, Jr., a former Wright graduate. After some flying Rinehart returned to the Dayton Wright School where he remained busy throughout the fall, with Roderick Wright as assistant instructor. Among Rinehart's students that fall was A. Roy Brown, a Canadian, who later was officially credited with shooting down Germany's foremost World War I ace, Baron von Richthofen. In October, 1915, Orville Wright sold the assets of the original Wright Company to an eastern financial group, and Rinehart continued with the new setup in the same capacity. 

The Wright winter school opened at Augusta, Georgia, on December 20, 1915, with Rinehart as Chief Instructor and William B. Atwater his assistant, and 25 students enrolled. Later A. B. Gaines, Jr., also joined the school as an instructor. The winter school closed about May 1[[strikethrough]] st [[/strikethrough]], 1916, and the summer school opened May 10th at Hempstead Plains Flying Field, Long Island, with Rinehart at Chief Instructor. There, on May 17th, he obtained his Expert Pilot License, No. 50. In July he conducted the first flight tests on two new Wright planes, the new single propeller tractor fuselage Model "L" and the twin-propeller, short-span fuselage pusher Model "HS." In August the newly organized Wright Company merged with the Glenn Martin Company to become the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation, and Rinehart continued as Chief Instructor of the school, assisted by Arch Freeman. The school was in operation until alte fall and trained a large class of students. 

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