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Re: SAAB B17 - it's actually 5 aircraft left

Posted by Mikael Olrog on Sat Dec 15, 2001 05:10:01 AM

In reply top SAAB B17 posted by MGM on Fri Dec 14, 2001 05:05:52 PM

Quite rare indeed,

2 aircraft in Sweden (one airworthy)
2 aircraft in South Africa (recovered from Ethiopia)
1 aircraft in Denmark (in Danish coulours from the Danish Brigade in 1945)

And I've got a Schwarts woodenpropellerblade (licenced from Germany) from a SAAB B17 in my home... ;-)



: http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=SAAB+B17&hl=en
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: Loads of pics if you put SAAB B17 into Google.
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: Not a particularly good looking aeroplane, but quite rare
: at only four left I think.
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: TTFN
: Mick

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