Over the next five years, it would build 106 aircraft, including Benoist XIVs that would be used for the first heavier-than-air airline service.

[1] In 1913, Benoist moved production into the St. Louis Car Company factory run by E. B. Meissner.

Tony Jannus flew a Benoist XIV that suffered a broken propeller, and sunk while being towed to shore.

[3] Benoist built the type XV twin-engine flying boat with hopes to market it as an anti-submarine patrol aircraft for the British government.

A round-the-world publicity tour was scheduled and a merger with the Meissner's company to make a thousand examples were in the works when World War I tensions cancelled the efforts.