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The Thaden T-1 Argonaut was a 1920s
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eight-seat all-metal cabin monoplane, built by the Thaden Metal Aircraft Company of San Francisco, California
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Description and history
The Thaden T-1 was a high-wing strut-braced monoplane, constructed of corrugatedaluminum
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, and powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp
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radial engine. It had a fixed conventional landing gear
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with a tailskid. Only one example was built (X3902); its first flight was on 15 January 1928, and its final flight ended in 1933 in a crash in Alaska. In 1986, the wrecked fuselage was recovered, and is now on display at the Hiller Aviation Museum
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History Background
As early as the late 1960 ...
in San Carlos, California
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History
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Specifications
See also
* Thaden T-2 *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 ...
References
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