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The Thaden T-4 Argonaut was a 1930s
American
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four-seat all-metal cabin monoplane built by the
Thaden Metal Aircraft Company of
San Francisco, California
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.
Design and development
The T-4 was the third and last design of the Thaden Metal Aircraft Company which had been formed by Herbert von Thaden, a former
United States Army Signal Corps
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pilot and engineer, to work on developing the first American all-metal aircraft. The T-4 was a high-wing monoplane powered by a
Wright Whirlwind
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radial engine.
It had a fixed
conventional landing gear
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with a tailwheel.
Two aircraft were built.
Specifications
See also
*
Thaden T-1
*
Thaden T-2
References
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