Key facts
- Type
- Turboprop Regional airliner
- National origin
- Sweden
- Manufacturer
- Saab AB
- Status
- In limited passenger service, in military service
- Manufactured
- 1992–1999
- Introduction date
- 30 August 1994
- First flight
- 26 March 1992
- Developed from
- Saab 340
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- regional airliner
- Subclass of
- airliner
- Operator
- PenAir
- Country of origin
- Sweden
- Follows
- Saab 340
- Based on
- Saab 340
- Developer
- Saab Group
- Manufacturer
- Saab Group
- Image
- Etihad Saab 2000 take off.jpg
- Height
- 7.73
- Length
- 27.28
- Has use
- commercial aviation
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- Commons category
- Saab 2000
- maximum capacity
- 58
- Commons gallery
- Saab 2000
- total produced
- 63
- service entry
- 1994-00-00
- wingspan
- 24.76
- native label
- Saab 2000
- first flight
- 1992-03-26
- wing configuration
- low wing
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Encyclopedic overview
The Saab 2000 is a twin-engined high-speed turboprop airliner built by Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab. It is designed to carry 50–58 passengers and able to cruise at a maximum speed of 685 km/h (370 kn). Production took place in Linköping, Sweden. It first flew in March 1992 and was certified in 1994. The last aircraft was delivered in April 1999, a total of 63 aircraft were built. As of October 2024, a total of 31 Saab 2000s are either in airline or military service.
Development and design
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saab 2000” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.