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About March 1st the company started Sinnie on a combined publicity and barnstorming trip from Brownsville back toward Chicago, where he arrived on March 28th.
He remained with the Universal group until 1935, but during this period it had been reorganized to become American Airlines. At that time they were flying their Pratt and Whitney-powered Fairchild Executive Plane and their Ford and Fokker trimotors on the Chicago to Kansas City, Chicago to Cleveland, Chicago to St. Louis and Chicago to Fort Worth runs.
During the latter part of 1935 Sinnie left and returned to Ford Airport, where he worked in operations, did some flying and inspection work until July 31, 1936, when he and a partner, Harry Ferris, opened a Flying School at the Muskegon County Airport, Muskegon, Michigan August 1st, 1936. A year later he bought out his partner and formed his own company, known as the Sinclair Flying Service, which he still operates there.
During World War II he secured a CPT training program, and among his students were so me who later made quite a name for themselves during the war.
Since then Sinnie has continued to operate his Flying Service, doing instructing, charter work, some aerial photography, aerial ambulance trips and passenger carrying. At times he has also taken some quite extensive trips to deliver a plane to a new owner, one a Piper Super-Cruiser to the Panama Canal Zone.
An active Early Bird and member of all the major aviation fraternal organizations, recipient of innumerable well deserved honors and awards, here indeed is a most unusual Flying Pioneer. Still actively engaged in aviation, he has spent his entire life flying airplanes. His sincere faith in and devoted enthusiasm for flying has remained active throughout his fifty years experience. Well known, he is a great ambassador of aviation and is richly deserving of everlasting credit for the very major part he has played in the development and growth of American aviation.
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