SAAB aircraft projects, a brief list with descriptions

Civilian projects

These projects are numbered starting with 90. Some of these have a military connection .

• 90: Saab Scandia, airliner for 25-30 passengers and 3 crew, started 1944, flew 1946, 18 built 1949-51.
• 91: Saab Safir, trainer, 323 built
• 92, 93: Cars, 1947, 1956, 95-99: Cars, 1959-67
• 94: Business aircraft, basically a twin engined Safir and like the AeroCommander
• 100: Business aircraft, 4-5 passengers, 1956
• 102: Twin rear engined jetliner, 45 passengers, 1958
• 103: Twin turboprop airliner for 1200 m fields, 68 passengers, 1958
• 104: One nose mounted turboprop, one jet in tail, 600 m field, 24 passengers, 1957
• 105: Twin engined trainer, Swedish air force designation SK 60, 1958, 188 built 1966-72
• 105CT: A four seat civilian business jet version of the above, no bubble canopy
• 106: Business jet derivative of the 105 with longer cabin, 4 or 6 passengers, 2 crew, 1959
• SSE: SuperSonic Executive, sort of a large Viggen with twin J 93s for 4-6 passengers, 1968
• 108: Turboprop (-3) and jet (-5) commuters, 28 or 36 passengers, 1970 (number later reused)
• 115/108-6: Three engined jet commuter, 24 passengers, 1970 (both numbers later reused)
• 107: Several 600/1200 m (STOL/RTOL) field transport aircraft in different sizes and configurations, 1967-69: 107-1 STOL, 4 turboprops, 44 passengers; 107-2 RTOL, 2 or 4 turbofans, 44 passengers; 107-3 (and -4 with canard) RTOL, 2 turbofans, 80 passengers, cockpit over opening nose
• 108: MULAS, (Multi Utility Light Aircraft System) a series of short/rough field transports, 1977: 108-1 4 piston engines, 19 passengers or 2270 kg cargo; 108-2 as -1 with two turboprops; 108-3 2 turboprops, 28 passengers or 3000 kg cargo; 108-4 2 turboprops, 30 passengers or 3400 kg cargo;
• 109: Twin engined business jet, rear mounted engines with air intakes on top of the fuselage in front of the fin, 5 passengers, 1969
• 110: As 109 but three engines and up to nine passengers
• 111: Single engine agricultural turboprop, 1 ton payload (or three passengers), 1977
• 112: Twin jet corporate aircraft, 15 passengers, 1969
• 113: Three engined corporate jet, 25 passengers, 1969
• 114: Twin side by side seat trainer, single turboprop, 1979
• 115: Four turboprop STOL transport/airliner, 100 passengers, 1970
• 116, 117, 118 STOL transporter in cooperation with HFB with 100, 60 and 40 passengers with four turboprops, 1971
• 190: Super Scandia, twin ALF 502 commuter jet (over the wings for grass field capability), 1975
• 191: Possible Bulldog/Saab 105 replacement for the Swedish air force, nose and canopy very like 105 (which can also be said for Fairchild T-46) with either a single jet on top of the fuselage, twin jets in the rear fuselage, one pulling or pushing turboprop
• Forestry crane helicopter, rotor tip jets, 1964
• Autogiro, 4 persons, 1965
• 200: 700 kg empty weight helicopter, 2-3 persons, 1968
• 201: Saab Safir fitted with J 29 Tunnan wing in 1947, used for low speed trials
• 202: The same Safir now with Lansen wing, flew from 1950
• 340: Saab 340, 35 passenger commuter, also AEW variant, 1980
• 2000: Larger derivative of Saab 340, also built

Military projects

Within the 1000- number series there are usually several (or lots of) versions or quite different aircraft with separate numbers.

• L 10 (1938): Saab B/S 17
• L 11 (1938): Saab B/T 18
• L 12 (1939): Conventional fighter with radial engine, given the designation J 19 but never built
• L 13 (1939): What became the Saab 21, later during development called L 21
• L 23 (1941): Conventional alternative to J 21
• L 24 (1942): Bf 110 lookalike, given the designation B 24 and J 24, cancelled
• L 27 (1945): High performance piston engine fighter, given the designation J 27, never built
• 1000 (1947): 29 Tunnan
• 1100 (1948): 32 Lansen
• 1200 (1950): 35 Draken
• 1300 (1952): fighter and attack projects
  1319 missile armed fighter with two de Havilland rocket engines,
  1325 was a Draken replacement fighter with Gyron jets with partial afterburners on the wingtips and an (automatically starting in case of engine failure) rocket in the tail (the rocket motor is still in use on sounding rockets),
  1350 was a larger attack variant of 1325, with full afterburners,
  1352 single engine (Olympus) of 1350,
  1372 was a an unstable double delta (not even a wind tunnel model),
  1376 was the A 36,
  1377 like 1376 but with dorsal air intake,
  the "U-plan" was also in this series (a variable geometry turborocket submersible M 2 fighter
• 1400 (1955): Fighter and attack projects, often STOL or VTOL,
  1410 was a STOVL fighter with afterburning nozzles in and as the flaps, also good for reversing, M 2+,
  1421B was a M 2.8 Draken replacement in 1956
  1443 a Mirage III (independently arrived at) lookalike with M 2.3
• 1500 (1958): STOL and VTOL projects which led to 37 Viggen
  1500-01 pretty like a Harrier
  1504 in 1961 looked very much like Viggen
  1508A2
  1534 became 37 Viggen,
  1536 a VTOL Viggen
• 1600 (1968): B3LA predecessors, 1638 rather similar
• 1700: Higher performance B3LA versions, not much studied
• 1800 (1972): 1806 was the final B3LA
• 1900 (1979): Flygplan 80 ("Aircraft 80") and JAS 39 predecessors
• 2000: Briefly studied JAS 39 predecessors
• 2060: Modernised (partly Gripen avionics, powerful engines, partly composite construction) Saab 105 mainly intended for USAF. Early 1990's.
• 2100: 2110 became 39 Gripen

Document created 2000 Dec 05, last modified 2005 July 14