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
See also
- Louise Thaden - Herbert Thaden's wife and a pioneer female aviator.
References
- Notes
- Bibliography
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