Wilbur Wright laid his hands on the controls of a flying machine for the last time in May 1910. After Wilbur's death in 1912, Orville Wright made many flights at this flying field with student pilots as passengers, continued working to improve aircraft controls, and test-flew experimental models being built in Dayton by The Wright Company. In December 1913, Orville made seventeen flights from this field to test and demonstrate his prize-winning Automatic Stabilizer to the Aero-Club of America. The man who had first shown the world how to make a machine fly in December 1903 made his last hop as pilot in command in May 1918 from nearby Moraine, Ohio.