Thaden Metal Aircraft Company
The Thaden Metal Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturer based in San Francisco, California in the late 1920s.[1]
History[edit]
The company was founded by Herbert von Thaden in 1928 to design and build a series of all-metal cabin monoplanes.
In 1929 the company was renamed the Pittsburgh Metal Airplane Company when it was bought by the Pittsburgh Aviation Industries Corporation for $100,000. The company failed to break into the commercial market and collapsed, PAIC sold the company to the General Aviation Corporation in 1930 and it was renamed the Metalair Corporation.[2]
Aircraft[edit]
- Thaden T-1 (1928)[1]
- Thaden T-2 (1928)[1]
- Thaden T-4 (1930)[1]
See also[edit]
- Louise Thaden - Herbert Thaden's wife and a pioneer female aviator.
References[edit]
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- Notes
- Bibliography
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985). Orbis Publishing.