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20 Years of the Saab 340 SAAB AIRCRAFT Customer Services Wingtips Issue 4 March 2003 Information to Saab 340 and Saab 2000 Operators 20 Years of the Saab 340 State of the company Focus on operations www.saabaircraft.com MESSAGE FROM Contents Saab 340 marks 20th anniversary. 3 State of the Saab Aircraft Company . 4 by Hans Almér, President Saab Aircraft AB The environmentally friendly Saab 340 and Saab 2000 . 5 by Lennart Ericsson, Senior Engineer Aerodynamics-Operations Engineering John Belanger Saab 340 questions from the fleet. 6-7 by Captain Bob Roth, Flight Operations Welcome to the first issue of Wingtips for 2003! Saab 2000 Operators’ Conference . 8 Normally in this section you would find a greeting from Hans Almér and TAWS update . 8 Marty Schultz with some well chosen words summarizing Saab’s support by Per Skogsberg, Sales Manager, Modifications activities towards our customers and the market place in general. However, in this first issue of 2003 we have instead chosen to expand Flexible logistic solutions to fit any operation . .8 that summary into a full article and provide the president of Saab Aircraft AB the opportunity to comment in detail.You will find the special Structural design and maintenance principles . 9 “State of the Saab Aircraft Company” address on page 4 of this issue. by George Caracost, Customer Service Director. That leaves it up to me to fill this space and to fill you in on this issue— Maintaining aircraft performance . 10-11 by Joakim Andersson, Manager, Aerodynamics-Operations Engineering and I’ll do my best! Management changes. 11 In addition to the above, this issue marks a milestone in the Saab 340 story—namely the fact that we are celebrating 20 years of Saab 340 Saab operators . 12 service this year. The workhorse of the regional aircraft fleet is now officially a veteran—and still going strong. You’ll find an article covering the birth of the 340 on page 3. It will be a topic that we will continue Saab Aviation Services to touch on both in future Wingtips issues as well as in Saab Aircraft SE-581 88 Linköping Leasing’s Market Report during the coming year. Sweden Tel: +46 13 18 2616 Wingtips is traditionally an information source for the flight and Fax: +46 13 18 4495 maintenance folks who operate and maintain our aircraft, so of course e-mail: [email protected] www.saab.se there is, as always, technical and operational information and tips that we hope will be of interest and assistance. Towards this end, look for several Saab Aircraft AB “Ops” oriented articles. SE-581 88 Linköping, Sweden Telephone: +46 13 18 2616 In closing, and since this is my first opportunity to address the readers of Telefax: +46 13 18 4495 Wingtips personally, I would like to both introduce myself to those of you e-mail: [email protected] who I have not as yet had the opportunity to meet, as well as take the chance to give my warmest regards to those of our operators and vendors Saab Aircraft of America LLC who I have met and worked with over the years. 21300 Ridgetop Circle Sterling,Virginia 20166 U.S.A Telephone: +1 703 406 7200 It has been about two years now since my transition from a technical Fax +1 703 406 7222 position within the company into PR and Communications. While the e-mail: [email protected] change in my work-related responsibilities has been rather dramatic, after 12–plus years with Saab Aircraft, I still find the interaction with our www.saabaircraft.com customers, suppliers and others to be as stimulating and rewarding now as I did during my earliest days at Saab Aircraft. I look forward to Wingtips is published by Saab Aircraft AB meeting even more of you in my current position and to many more good years as part of the Saab Family. Editor: Kelly Murphy Emerald Media [email protected] Europe: Alison Chambers Good Reading! Emerald Media [email protected] Design and Layout: Aeris Graphic Design [email protected] John Belanger Printed in USA March 2003 Director, PR and Communications ©2003 Saab Aircraft AB Wingtips Customer Services Saab marks 20th anniversary The first tentative steps The year 2003 marks the 20th anniversary launch of the B series. The third prototype, of the Saab 340. In this time, the aircraft serial number 003, joined the test fleet has earned the reputation of being a soon after, allowing the program to fulfill reliable, dependable workhorse capable of its planned schedule on time. operating in a diverse range of conditions The Saab 340 was way ahead of its from the frozen winters of Scandinavia to time and the first, by a long margin, of a the hot, dusty and frequently stony whole new generation of regional airlines. landscapes of South America. The aircraft It demonstrated the incredible faith felt by has carried VIP’s (the Pope in June 1984) the Board of Saab-Scania and its then Saab 340 Roll Out as well as freight in the newly configured partners Fairchild Industries and General dedicated cargo version. The Saab 340 is Electric. It was also the first aircraft ever to equally at home plying the runways of work towards Joint European Certification, and founder, Gary Adamson, signed up for major international airports or rarely used JAR 25, previously the responsibility of five of the type in 1981. airways providing essential links to remote individual countries. This was no mean feat Since those heady days, much has communities. and required a total of 35,000 man-hours changed in the world of aviation, but one Having ‘rolled out’ in front of an and 1,731 test flights, of which 585 hours thing has remained constant: The Saab audience of a thousand people on October were certification tests. 340. With over 10 million flights to its 27, 1982, prototype serial number 001 of The program was no pie-in-the-sky. credit to date, it has proven itself to be a the Saab-Fairchild 340A, as it was then Regional airlines around the world saw venerable workhorse and can be found known, made its tentative, maiden the potential in this revolutionary new providing a vital service in every corner of flight in January 1983 from its home regional aircraft and were active, the world. A veteran perhaps, but a reliable base in Linköping, Sweden. Aircraft 001 is, sometimes even vociferous, in their input one with many more years still to enjoy. incidentally, famous for the signature on its and recommendations. Legend records fuselage, personally inscribed by King Carl that Moritz Suter, then President and Saab 340 Joint Certification XVI Gustaf and can still be seen today, CEO of Switzerland’s painted in Skyways colors ‘flying’ atop a Crossair (and worldwide post on the outskirts of Linköping. This is launch customer), declared a proud monument to Saab’s historic links ‘You build it and I’ll buy 50,’ with the city. which he eventually did! A rigorous flight test program was It was also in 1983 that launched with the first 24 flights Cincinnati-based Comair completed in just four weeks. Serial announced to the world number 002 followed in April of that year, that it would be the first just in time to make its debut at the Paris US carrier to put the 340 Air Show in June, before returning to into service. They were not, Sweden to join the flight test program and however, the US launch then on to conduct hot and high trials in customer for this mould- Terrejon, near Madrid in Spain in the July. breaking little airliner. It remained as a test aircraft for ongoing That accolade goes to Air development trials leading up to the Midwest whose President Wingtips March 2003 3 Wingtips Saab Aircraft— engineering capability, or a full complement with UK-based AIM, secure cockpit doors of spares. This is where Saab’s tailored have been developed. Deliveries and The state of the support service comes into its own. installation of the new doors are expected to Many of our operators are also new to be completed in good time to meet the early company the type, again requiring a higher level of April 2003 deadline. Evaluations of the fuel by Hans Almér, President Saab Aircraft AB support from Saab, particularly during the tank safety issue were submitted last year, integration stage. In some ways it is and the implementation and integration of s we reminiscent of the early days, some 19 or 20 TAWS has also been addressed. enter years ago, when all our customers were new Further ahead, we are working on the Awhat to the type, requiring high levels of support proposed reduced vertical separation over appears to be per aircraft, particularly during start up. 29,000 feet for Saab 2000 operations. We are yet another These days, it is also frequently the also continuously updating studies on other year of uncer- case that the Saab operation is a move up potential future requirements. Our intention is tainty in the from 19-seaters, in an environment with to always be proactive and to have a solution aviation in- little infrastructure to support the enlarged available and “in the box”almost before the dustry, I’d like operation. It is in these cases that Saab’s customer realizes the need. to take the expertise and experience really comes to Management programs are already in opportunity to the fore. An expanded and continuously place to continue adding value to the fleet. share my views about the future of Saab refined set of tools, such as the recently For example, the design life of the 340 has Aircraft and our market place in general.
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