When the F-1 was completed, Allan Loughead and a crew of three flew it from Santa Barbara to San Diego in April 1918, setting a record of 181 minutes for the 211-mile flight.[1] After the Navy completed its tests, the F-1 was returned to Loughead Aircraft and was then converted into the F-lA land-plane.[3] Loughead now hoped to interest the Army in it as a long-range bomber or transport plane. The war ended before its conversion was completed.[3]