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

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

• Thaden T-1 (1928)[1]
• Thaden T-2 (1928)[1]
• Thaden T-4 (1930)[1]

See also

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

References

Notes

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

Bibliography

• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985). Orbis Publishing.