He was asked to be a guest aerospace education instructor at a smaller squadron at Moisant Airport, and lectured there from June to September 1955. After a Ferrie-trained cadet pilot perished in a December 1954 crash, Ferrie's annual re-appointment was declined. There he served as an instructor, and later as the Commander.
When he moved to New Orleans, he transferred to the New Orleans Cadet Squadron at Lakefront Airport. įerrie was involved with the Civil Air Patrol in several ways: He started as a Senior Member (an adult member) with the Fifth Cleveland Squadron at Hopkins Airport in 1947. He then became an insurance inspector and, in 1951, moved to New Orleans where he worked as a pilot for Eastern Air Lines, until losing his job in August 1961, after being arrested twice on morals charges. He was fired from the school for several infractions, including taking boys to a house of prostitution. Charles because of "emotional instability." He obtained a pilot's license and began teaching aeronautics at Cleveland's Benedictine High School. Later in life, to compensate for his hair loss, Ferrie wore a homemade auburn wig and false eyebrows.
He suffered from alopecia areata, a skin condition which results in hair loss and whose severity may increase with age.
Mary's Seminary, where he studied for the priesthood, and Baldwin Wallace College. Ignatius High School, John Carroll University, St.