Saab 340 / 2000 - flying buses 

SAAB is a company that always made very reliable and high quality products, but for some weird reason they never become widespread

SAAB 340 was the first plane I flew as a first officer in the airlines. I flew them from 2007 to 2010, it's an excellent little plane and great for new pilots. It's crazy how time flies it seems like it was just yesterday. Great video.

Airbus: *Is literally named Airbus* Sky: *Flying busses from Saab*

"Saab-Fairchild" I love this. If ever an airplane could have a dignified posh sounding name, its that one.

Greetings from Linköping ! There is a wonderful flight museum here that is really worth a trip.

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I flew on a Saab 340 from Boston, MA to Presque Isle, ME a couple of times over the past few years and found it to be a fairly comfortable aircraft to fly on. More legroom than the regional jets that could be used for the same trip. I would definitely fly on one again if I had the chance.

I got my start in commercial aviation flying the SF-340. Was a great airplane!

I logged 1200 hours in a 340. They're great planes and very versatile. It was setup for corporate and cargo use. We'd be flying CEOs one day and technicians with cargo the next. It really was a asset to the company I worked for because we could get to a customer with a problem the same day a lot of times.

3:10 Looked like a real airplane until the guy walked in front.

For the longest time Saab bought back old 340 and 2000 series and converted them to radar and aircontroll aircrafts. They are also converted into military VIP transports due to the existance of the military variatns, the conversions are really quite simple. Worth saying that Saab civilian aircraft division is actually larger than it ever was currently. For the A380 landing gear doors and some rudder surfaces is made by Saab. For the A350 a considerate part of the tail section is made by saab and quite a lot of components. Most of those componenet goes on container to the UK where they are integrated in the wing or tailsection. So most people don´t think of saab as an Airbus contribitur but they are really a quite consiederate part now. Saab now days works mostly with composite. They joined the Airbus support team as late as A380 series if i remember correctly by making the main landing gear door and some of the cargo doors. They later made wingflaps for the UK site for increased production capacity. When the A350 come around Saab start making much more parts. And if i´m not missinformed they now also make some parts for the A320neo.

I’ve been waiting for a Saab Video for a while Keep it up Sky ! Almost 100K can do it !

7:02 Rip flybe :(

flew a saab2000 between london and isle of man. Lovely. leg room near the wing exit, and a view onto 6 blades driven by 4000 HP.' and on the other side, i knew, there was another setup like that. The sound is as calming as a merlin engine. Next to the Fokker 50, my favorite turpbooprop.

A fascinating video as usual! 😃 I’ve literally just booked some flights onboard these.

Thankyou, I am currently instructing a SAAB 340 engineering course. Our client has some 60 aircraft flying. Lovely machine.

I love the Saab 340 and Saab 2000 they are probably my favorite regional turboprops

Your videos are absolutely fantastic - a must-see for any airplane nut 😉👍🇸🇪

Good research also on the mishaps, I have flown both types several times as a passenger. You're right they're noisy, especially the 340 - didn't know they got active noise dampening later - I thought it was the new engines that improved on the noise somewhat. But on the early ones it was not possible to have a conversation while in flight, and that was one of their main drawbacks that probably prevented them from being truly popular.

been waiting this for a while! Love the SAABs and fly on them quite often.

I Flew Saab 340 A and B's..1992-1997. A GREAT Aircraft! Flew thru a lot of Ice over Lake Erie! Never had a issue! The Magic Bus we called it! It had EFIS Before US Air did...

BEAUTIFUL aircraft (Captain A321)

worked on the 340A and B for many years and really enjoyed them. They are fun to taxi and do the engine runs and system checks. Overall the plane really served the public well I would say but public opinion against turboprops and low passenger loadout kinda killed them. The 2000 I think is an excellent plane but came to late in the marketplace as their were so many regional jet models available and entering service. The 340 design was good and the plane was quite reliable.

2:27 I never knew that Fairchild created the A-10

2 Fun facts :) 1 The cargo door was designed so big - that the biggest american coffin (at the time) would be able to fit. 2 It the only or one of few very planes designes that has a window on the restroom. (2000)

Yes! Been waiting for this one. I’ve logged a bunch of miles on these back in the day in Northwest Airlink livery.

A much loved aircraft by REx (Regional Express) here in Australia. In fact it is their entire fleet apart from five 737s. It is so perfect for them they are constantly scavenging the second hand market for fresher 340s. Don't know what they are going to do once they've all timed out!

I love turboprops

Saabs 2000 should be bought by EU/US as Fire Tankers. Perfect plane for them and chance for long live of swedish prince ;)

The ct-7 engines on the Saab ran much hotter then their helicopter counterparts. Also, if debris, such as a piece of paper covered three or more inlet guide vanes, the engine had to be pulled. If the vanes were partially covered, it set up a vibration on the number five turbine blades that would break off during operations that would cause shrapnel to come out of the cowl at the velocity of a 30-06 rifle.

Regional Express in Australia only flies the Saab-340.

Always wondered about the history of this plane every time I saw a Silver airways Sab 340 at KMCO. Amaizing video, thank for the information.

Pretty sure a Saab 340 operates from Scotland's Capital city (Edinburgh) to the Shetland islands off Scotland's North coast, as I see one going over quite often...or perhaps it's a similar aircraft.

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"... also found their place in aviation..." - well, yeah. That's how they started, before they did anything else. "SAAB" is originally an abbreviation for "Svenska Aeroplanaktiebolaget" (Swedish Airplane Inc.).

I would love to see Saab back on the market

SAAB is an aircraft company that made cars. SAAB means "Svenska Aeroplan Aktie Bolaget" (Swedish Aeroplane Stock Comany).

Here you can find the largest airline encyclopedia in the world in moving pictures - great and keep it up!

I love these little 340s! Such a charming little guy. Great video Sky!

Fantastic presentation! As usual.

Looking forward to BAC 1-11

No mention of Regional Express Airlines in Australia? Still operating 55+ SAABs around country Australia. I had the pleasure of flying the 340, great first multi crew aircraft.

American Eagle, the regional airline of AMERICAN AIRLINES, was a big customer of this airplane.

Thank you for this. I didn't know about the 2000's ancestry. I've always liked the 2000, no idea why.

Any chance you could do one on the Embraer 120? Great video as always

Back around ‘98 I flew an American Eagle Saab340 from New York to Boston... the best way I could describe it was a roller coaster with propellers because the climb and decent on those felt like a roller coaster...

I've flow so many times on a Loganair 340 to wick. Always been a pleasure!

Yay!!! I’ve been waiting for this episode what seems like forever!!! SAAB makes the best turbo props. Thank you 👨🏻‍✈️

Having never flown on any Saab aircraft, only opinion I can offer is I think the Bombardier turbo prop is a better lookin aircraft....

There is now and is going to a huge market for 34 seat turbo props

where i work we are receving new to us saab 340 to replace our jetstream can't wait to see them and work on them

I would fly on these between Prague and Ostrava. I drove a Saab at the time, and always got the strange feeling that the seats were the same in the plane as in the car!

I hope too fly on a Saab 340 turboprop soon aka the flying buses.

I flew regularly on NWA 340s in the early 2000s out of Minneapolis. I loved them because I love flying. The Rolls Royce engines made you feel you had a Spitfire on each wing. My fellow passengers were not so enthralled. Very cramped, slow and often bumpy ride.

Such a shame that such a beautiful plane would go to waste :((((((

The props sure look beautiful when you see the plane flying

Grippen is the best jet for the $. If sweeden had just equal marketing capacity of brazil, canada today saab civilian aircraft would be close to bombardier and embarer and they would still be in prduction and new models..

Can you please make a video of the an22 ? I think it's biggest turbo prop aircraft

I fly cargo Saab 340!! Such an awesome airplane!!!

There are about 20 SF-340's still carrying freight out of Miami for UPS, and I remember the State of Michigan bought a Saab 2000 as the "corporate hack" in the 1990's because Saab the car company was partially owned by General Motors. The funny thing about this last is that Saab the defunct car company has only the name in common with Saab the current aircraft manufacturer...

Air india should buy this so that the smaller domestic airports can be connected

nice one mate, great explaniation and images - love it - your the best aircraft history channel on the tube

This is a great video, thank you.

The Draken is probably the most elegantly bad ass jet ever made.

Always liked these planes, many fond memories of flying out of Marquette, Mi on these on Northwest back in the day. I think they're one of the better looking turbo props out there.

I wonder how much this thing costs at my FSX payware add-on website.....

Silver airlines still uses them so I see them all the time.

Always loved working with the S2000´s, such a good airplane. Flying on them was also a great time. Sad to see them go.. 😐

7:14 “A340’s avionics”🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for the vid man

200 hundred more subs let’s get to 100,000!

Great plane. Been flying with Rex Airways for 15 years.

I flew the 340 quite a few times on the old Northwest Airlines (I really miss that airline) between KSUX and KMSP back in the day and I didnt mind it at all. Good airplane.

Both versions are great aircraft. The Saab 2000 looks like it's happily dancing a ballet among the clouds.

9:16 R.I.P Sol, we did not deserve you.

I been working on the Se-002 and its a pain to work on due to its so diffrent to the commercial aircraft!. Also one time two aircaft technitians drove it thru a hangar door at Arlanda airport. You can still see how that door is less rundown than the others at SAS main hangar

Why don't you give video/photo credit?

Very nice video And your channel will soon reach 100K subscribers !😃

Favorite aircraft and awesome video!

Never been on a 340 but see & hear Logan Air ones in Isle of Man Airspace . In September 2017 I flew on a 2000 for the first time on a Manchester - Glasgow flight returning a week later , It was one of Eastern’s fleet working in codeshare with the late Flybe. G-CDEB Was it registration and was very well appointed from its past codeshare work with British Airways on the Isle of Man - London City Service so it had big blue comfortable leather seats and big leg room. I found it a nice aircraft and just a little more exclusive ambiance compared to a Dash 8 Q400 of Flybe or a ATR 72 ex Aer Arran .

Met the chief test pilot of Saab 2000 in an airshow long back, when I was a cadet myself. Amazing guy. He sat me down in CM1 seat and taught me about all the systems for a good half an hour.

7:38 and 8:24 is actually the same aircraft (HB-AKD and G-LGNJ msn 173)

I had a Saab 93 for many years. I miss that car! That car was a rocket on wheels, especially when you hit the turbo button. Yes, I got a speeding ticket one time. I have to tell the truth. So, I did have to slow down a bit. However, I still loved that car!

i flew in one of this to puerto rico from Dominican Republic nice aircraft for shor hauls fligths

Those noses remind me the ones in embraer jets

Saab 2000 was/is an amazing plane to fly in! Great vid.

Now that's an "Airbus"

These planes are awesome. I have flown on them often.

If Saab 340/2000 are flying buses what do we call the AIRBUS 380??LOL

10:30 you sure about that speed?

2:27 V E R Y different lmao your tone gets me every time. Keep up the good work!

The channel has just reached 100k subscribers!

Saab was an aerospace company first, car maker second.

Plz do the il62 or douglas dc4/dc6

The American engines weren't replaced with British engines. They were replaced by more powerful American engines. AE is Allison Engine, an American manufacturer that was acquired by Rolls Royce. Their products were rebranded as Rolls Royce AE. (Although I'm not sure how integrated AE was within RR by that point.)

nice report

Hopefully 100,000 subs today... congrats 🍾

so its basically the hudson hornet in aviation ?

Given the Swedish Air Force uses the SAAB 340s extensively and can operate their combat aircraft on roads, can the SAAB 340 and 2000 have the ability to land on roads???

5:46 Looks like a 757 in the front :)