Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Selfridge ya kasance a Presidio a lokacin yakin basasa.
San Francisco babban girgizar kasa na Afrilu 18, 1906. Unitungiyar sa ta shiga cikin bincike da ceto da kuma ayyukan tsaftacewa. A cikin 1907, an sanya shi zuwa Sashin Jirgin Sama, Rundunar Sigina ta Amurka a Fort Myer, Virginia, inda daga baya aka koya masa yadda ake tuka jirgin sama. Ya kuma kasance wakilin gwamnatin Amurka ga Kungiyar Gwajin Jirgin Sama, wanda Alexander Graham Bell ya jagoranta, kuma ya zama sakatarensa na farko.