Key facts
- Type
- Turboprop regional airliner
- National origin
- Sweden, United States
- Manufacturer
- Saab AB , Fairchild Aircraft
- Status
- In service
- Primary user
- Rex Airlines
- Manufactured
- 1983–1999
- First flight
- 25 January 1983
- Variant
- Saab 340 AEW&C
- Developed into
- Saab 2000
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- regional airliner
- Subclass of
- narrow-body airliner
- Operator
- Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)
- Country of origin
- Sweden
- Developer
- Saab Group
- Mass
- 13154
- Manufacturer
- Saab Group
- Image
- Estonian Air Saab 340A ES-ASN.jpg
- Height
- 6.97
- Length
- 19.73
- Speed
- 283
- Has use
- commercial aviation
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Encyclopedic overview
The Saab 340 (also Saab SF340) is a Swedish twin-engine turboprop aircraft designed and initially produced by Saab AB and Fairchild Aircraft. It is designed to seat 30–36 passengers and, as of July 2018, there were 240 operational aircraft used by 34 different operators.
Under the production arrangement in which production was split 65:35 between Saab and Fairchild, Saab constructed the all-aluminum fuselage and vertical stabilizer along with final assembly of the aircraft in Linköping, Sweden, while Fairchild was responsible for the wings, empennage, and wing-mounted nacelles for the two turboprop engines. After Fairchild ceased this work in 1985, production of these components was transferred to Sweden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saab 340” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.