Saab 17

what is it?

The Saab 17 is a Swedish single-engine monoplane reconnaissance dive-bomber aircraft of the 1940s originally developed by ASJA prior to its merger into Saab. It was the first all-metal stressed skin aircraft developed in Sweden.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 13.7 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 435 km/htop speed
• range 1,700 kmwithout refuelling
• size 3,870 kgmax take-off weight
• built 326made in total

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 86 years ago, in 1940.
• 🏎️Top speed is 3.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 13.7 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 1,700 km: 9× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.1× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1940-05-18

introduced

1942

retired

1977

status

retired

number built

326

role

reconnaissance-dive bomber

origin

🇸🇪 Sweden

makers

Saab Group

engines

1× Piaggio P.XIbis R.C.40D / Bristol Pegasus / R-1830 Twin Wasp

length

10 m

wingspan

13.7 m

height

4.5 m

max take-off weight

3,870 kg

top speed

435 km/h

cruise speed

370 km/h

range

1,700 km

ceiling

9,800 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.