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Indeed still an aircraft manufacturer of high esteem
Posted by 889KT [Email] (more from 889KT) on Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:02:48
In Reply to: Re: Car reverting to its roots as AirPlane ..., Null, Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:16:53
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You are right, Saab is still manufacturing airplanes - now under the name of Saab Aircraft (and this is how they started life before cars).
Only the excellent high tech fighter Gripen is now manufactured (Viggen production was ceased a number of years ago - but they still fly them in the Swedish airforce).
The commuter planes are as you say in traffic and plenty of them here in the US (Saab 340 and 2000), no longer manufactured though. They are also subcontractor to other aircraft majors such as Airbus, Douglas, Boeing etc - not sure about who they supply currently.
So they are indeed a vey high tech company...
The Scania part of the name is dropped since they sold off Scania (the truck division a few years back) and the car divisions to GM as you noted.
Who am I to tell? Well, I used to work for the aircraft division for a number of years many moons ago and told the company story to many vendors.....
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