The Thaden Metal Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturer based in San Francisco, California in the late 1920s.
History
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.
Aircraft
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Thaden T-1 (1928)
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Thaden T-2 (1928)
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Thaden T-4 __NOTOC__
The Thaden T-4 Argonaut was a 1930s American four-seat all-metal cabin monoplane built by the Thaden Metal Aircraft Company of San Francisco, California.
Design and development
The T-4 was the third and last design of the Thaden Meta ...
(1930)
See also
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Louise Thaden
Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (born Louise McPhetridge; November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979) was an American aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes. She was ...
- Herbert Thaden's wife and a pioneer female aviator.
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States