In 1927, Prudden founded the Prudden-San Diego Airplane Company, to manufacture an all-metal trimotor with Ryan supplied engines.
-- Related is George Rex Noville (1932-1975)--> In 1927 in a trimotor Fokker C-2 monoplane, the America he flew with Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, and Bert Acosta on their record setting transatlantic flight.