The Thaden Metal Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturer based in San Francisco, California in the late 1920s.[1]

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.[2]

Aircraft

See also

  • Louise Thaden - Herbert Thaden's wife and a pioneer female aviator.

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 3 4 Orbis 1985, p. 3000
  2. "American airplanes - Ta-Th". www.aerofiles.com. 30 January 2009. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
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