#2003· ICAO SW4
Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1969· regional airliner
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. D-COLD (3421921794): Björn Strey· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Crossair Fairchild Swearingen SA-227AC Metro III and Tyrolean Airways Dash 7 at Zurich Airport: Rolf Wallner· GFDL 1.2
- 3. Fairchild Swearingen SA-227AT Merlin IVC AN1129009: Renato Spilimbergo Carvalho· GFDL 1.2
- 4. Fairchild Swearingen Tp88 Metro III AEW: Mike Freer· GFDL 1.2
- 5. Metroliner C-26: U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Shelley Gill; The original uploader was User name one at English Wikipedia ., 15 October 2009 (original upload date)· Public domain
- 6. N235BA Swearingen SA226TC Metro (7427882054): Aeroprints.com· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 7. Compagnie Aerienne du Languedoc Swearingen SA-226TC Metro II F-GCPG: Eduard Marmet· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. FAC1240 Swearingen SA.226TC Metro II Fuerza Aerea Colombiana (7501651412): Aeroprints.com· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Fairchild Metroliner Aerocon: Marcualico· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Fairchild Swearingen SA-226TC Metro II -0005 - Flickr - Ragnhild & Neil Crawford: Ragnhild&Neil Crawford from Sweden· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San Antonio, Texas.
How to recognise it: 2 turboprops · low wing · retractable tricycle gear · 17.4 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 57 years ago, in 1969.
- Top speed is 4.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 17.4 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,100 km: 6× Amsterdam to Brussels.
turboprop: A jet-style turbine turning a propeller: efficient on short hops.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1969-08-26
- introduced
- 1972
- status
- still flying
- number built
- 600
- role
- regional airliner
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- SyberJet Aircraft, Fairchild
- engines
- 2× Garrett AiResearch TPE-331
- crew
- 2
- passengers
- 19
- length
- 18.1 m
- wingspan
- 17.4 m
- height
- 5.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 6,577 kg
- top speed
- 576 km/h
- cruise speed
- 515 km/h
- range
- 1,100 km
- ceiling
- 7,620 m
- wings
- low wing
- landing gear
- retractable tricycle gear
- ICAO code
- SW4
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q1393122, Wikipedia: Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (CC BY-SA 4.0), ICAO code from list of aircraft type designators.Updated 2026-10-24.