Thaden Metal Aircraft Company

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

[1] 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.

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