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One of the grandsons of the company founders talked the company into purchasing a Waco 10 (NC6528; ATC #41; not a Davis-Monthan airplane) and competed with it in the 1927 National Air Races (NAR) and the 1928 Ford Reliability Tour (Forden reference, left sidebar, chapter IV). He hired Charles W. Meyers, then chief test pilot for Advance Aircraft Co. (makers of Waco planes) to fly the airplane. Colby went along as passenger. They took 4th place in the National Air Tour, and first place in the NAR New York to Spokane, WA Class B race in 1928. According to a popular biography of Colby in the April 15, 1938 issue of Sportsman Pilot, he sold the Waco after the 1928 Tour and bought a Buhl.
Finally, in 1928, he learned to fly at Culver City, CA. He bought the Great Lakes airplane, NC840H and had it painted with the company name on the fuselage. He was hailed in Detroit as the first sales manager to employ an airplane to cover his territory (but see “Pop” Cleveland and the information about the Parker Pen Company at NC126M).
He then went into business making aviation country clubs with golf courses and resorts, one was on Grosse Island, near Detroit, another was the Lazy H Ranch northeast of Escondido which Colby founded after World War II, converting it into a resort complex with a landing strip and golf course
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