title: Thaden Metal Aircraft Company
text: # Thaden Metal Aircraft Company
  
  The Thaden Metal Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturer based in San Francisco, California in the late 1920s.
  
  ## 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.
  
  ## Aircraft
  
  * Thaden T-1 (1928)
  * Thaden T-2 (1928)
  * Thaden T-4 (1930)
  