In 1932 Sydney Gaines and two partners founded the United Electric Company as an automotive parts wholesaler. Nine years later, after receiving warranty repair contracts on several GM car lines, the company set up an auto repair business in addition to their distributorship. The auto repair business converted into a retail showroom a few years later when United Electric entered the retail appliance business.

An opportunity arose in 1945 to furnish evaporative coolers to military bases. These coolers were the first Magic Aire branded products and sales were prosperous for the next two decades. Problems with getting warranty settlements on electric motors caused United Electric to set up a department to rewind motors. Soon, the sales of new electric motors boomed.

The year 1947 saw Chrysler Airtemp appoint Magic Aire as the distributor for 28 counties in Northern Texas and Southern Oklahoma. Due to the small population in its sales area, the company both installed and serviced these products.

In 1955 the company moved its four divisions, the Automotive Parts Distribution, the Air Conditioning Distributor, the Magic Aire manufacturing, and the new full-line Electrical Wholesale Distribution into a new masonry building at its present location.

In 1957 the company started manufacturing air conditioner coils, marking the beginning of Magic Aire as it is today. There were more additions made to the building as the company grew its own line of evaporator coils and blower coil products.

The Gaines family sold the business in  December 1987 to Stillwater Investments, a New York investment firm. While keeping Magic Aire intact, the wholesale divisions were sold, allowing management to focus on the HVAC business. It also allowed the HVAC division to expand into all of the nearly 250,000 square feet of the United Electric Company facility.

In February, 1998, we became a wholly owned subsidiary of International Comfort Products Corporation (USA).  Soon afterwards, in August of 1999, ICP and Magic Aire were acquired by Carrier Corporation.  Ten years later Carrier decided to divest the company.

August 2010 saw the return of United Electric Company and the Magic Aire brand to independent status.  A team of managers made a successful bid to take the company private.  This change freed the company to invest more freely in technologies that met the needs of the industry for higher efficiency and improved IAQ products.