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their flying field to the fairgrounds, about 30 miles away, where he delivered in to a sub-station. That month he was also flying the Beech-National plane, and on March 29th carried A. C. Beech on a long test flight. All operations were moved back to Chicago in the spring, where Studenski continued on test and exhibition work that season.
During the spring of 1912 the company introduced a smaller, single-seat version of the Beech-National biplane, using a 50 hp., Gnome engine, and Studenski conducted tests on this new plane at Cicero Field during June. On July 18th he flew at Atchison, Kansas. That spring the National Company purchased a French Nieuport monoplane and a Nieuport pilot, Marcel Tournier, was engaged to fly it. Studenski also began using the Nieuport, and during June and July was very active at Cicero, doing some of the best flying at the field. On August 7th he flew the Beech-National at Bushnell, Illinois, then flew 45 miles to Rushville, Illinois, for an exhibition engagement. August 19th he flew at Owatonna, Minnesota, then on August 24th started a one-week engagement at the Iowa State Fair at Des Moines with Marcel Tournier and William C. Robinson. September 2nd to 7th he flew at St. Paul, Minnesota, again with these same two aviators. September 8th to 13th Studenski flew alone at Huron, South Dakota; September 18th and 19th at Madison, South Dakota; then on the 24th to 26th he was at the Dawson County Fair, Glendive, Montana.
Studenski remained with the National Company through 1912, then in the spring of 1913 he started to fly a Roberts-powered Curtiss-type biplane for the Silver Lake Aviation Company of Akron, Ohio. He signed a contract there for one year but after a few weeks of flying the company folded up in June, so Studenski sued for damages. He remained in aviation through 1913 as a barnstorming exhibition pilot, then his wife persuaded him to quit flying.
Studenski decided to go to New York, where he joined the Bureau of Municipal Research and started evening study courses at New York University, then in 1921