Saab 17 | |
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General information | |
Type | Reconnaissance-dive bomber |
National origin | Sweden |
Manufacturer | SAAB |
Primary users | Swedish Air Force |
Number built | 326 (including 2 prototypes)[1] |
History | |
Manufactured | 1941–1944 |
Introduction date | March 1942[2] |
First flight | 18 May 1940 |
Retired | 1968 (Ethiopia) |
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.