SAAB aircraft projects, a brief list with descriptions

This is mainly about the military projects which never got built, but a few civilian ones will be related too.

Civilian projects

These projects are numbered starting with 90. Some of these have a military connection (or I don't think I'd bothered with the list).

90: Saab Scandia, airliner for 25-30 passengers and 3 crew, started 1944, flew 1946, 18 built 1949-51. More info on Saab Scandia 90A.
91: Saab Safir, trainer, 323 built
92, 93: Cars, 1947, 1956, 95-99: Cars, 1959-67
94: Business aircraft, basically a twin engined Safir and like the AeroCommander
100: Business aircraft, 4-5 passengers, 1956
102: Twin rear engined jetliner, 45 passengers, 1958
103: Twin turboprop airliner for 1200 m fields, 68 passengers, 1958
104: One nose mounted turboprop, one jet in tail, 600 m field, 24 passengers, 1957
105: Twin engined trainer, Swedish air force designation SK 60, 1958, 188 built 1966-72
105CT: A four seat civilian business jet version of the above, no bubble canopy
106: Business jet derivative of the 105 with longer cabin, 4 or 6 passengers, 2 crew, 1959
SSE: SuperSonic Executive, sort of a large Viggen with twin J 93s for 4-6 passengers, 1968
108: Turboprop (-3) and jet (-5) commuters, 28 or 36 passengers, 1970 (number later reused)
115/108-6: Three engined jet commuter, 24 passengers, 1970 (both numbers later reused)
107: Several 600/1200 m (STOL/RTOL) field transport aircraft in different sizes and configurations, 1967-69: 107-1 STOL, 4 turboprops, 44 passengers; 107-2 RTOL, 2 or 4 turbofans, 44 passengers; 107-3 (and -4 with canard) RTOL, 2 turbofans, 80 passengers, cockpit over opening nose
108: MULAS, (Multi Utility Light Aircraft System) a series of short/rough field transports, 1977: 108-1 4 piston engines, 19 passengers or 2270 kg cargo; 108-2 as -1 with two turboprops; 108-3 2 turboprops, 28 passengers or 3000 kg cargo; 108-4 2 turboprops, 30 passengers or 3400 kg cargo;
109: Twin engined business jet, rear mounted engines with air intakes on top of the fuselage in front of the fin, 5 passengers, 1969
110: As 109 but three engines and up to nine passengers
111: Single engine agricultural turboprop, 1 ton payload (or three passengers), 1977
112: Twin jet corporate aircraft, 15 passengers, 1969
113: Three engined corporate jet, 25 passengers, 1969
114: Twin side by side seat trainer, single turboprop, 1979
115: Four turboprop STOL transport/airliner, 100 passengers, 1970
116, 117, 118 STOL transporter in cooperation with HFB with 100, 60 and 40 passengers with four turboprops, 1971
190: Super Scandia, twin ALF 502 commuter jet (over the wings for grass field capability), 1975
191: Possible Bulldog/Saab 105 replacement for the Swedish air force, nose and canopy very like 105 (which can also be said for Fairchild T-46) with either a single jet on top of the fuselage, twin jets in the rear fuselage, one pulling or pushing turboprop
Forestry crane helicopter, rotor tip jets, 1964
Autogiro, 4 persons, 1965
200: 700 kg empty weight helicopter, 2-3 persons, 1968
201: Saab Safir fitted with J 29 Tunnan wing in 1947, used for low speed trials
202: The same Safir now with Lansen wing, flew from 1950
340: Saab 340, 35 passenger commuter, also AEW variant, 1980
2000: Larger derivative of Saab 340, also built

Military projects

Within the 1000- number series there are usually several (or lots of) versions or quite different aircraft with separate numbers.

L 10 (1938): Saab B/S 17
L 11 (1938): Saab B/T 18
L 12 (1939): Conventional fighter with radial engine, given the designation J 19 but never built
L 13 (1939): What became the Saab 21, later during development called L 21
L 23 (1941): Conventional alternative to J 21
L 24 (1942): Bf 110 lookalike, given the designation B 24 and J 24, cancelled
L 27 (1945): High performance piston engine fighter, given the designation J 27, never built
1000 (1947): 29 Tunnan
1100 (1948): 32 Lansen
1200 (1950): 35 Draken
1300 (1952): fighter and attack projects
1319 missile armed fighter with two de Havilland rocket engines,
1325 was a Draken replacement fighter with Gyron jets with partial afterburners on the wingtips and an (automatically starting in case of engine failure) rocket in the tail (the rocket motor is still in use on sounding rockets),
1350 was a larger attack variant of 1325, with full afterburners,
1352 single engine (Olympus) of 1350,
1372 was a an unstable double delta (not even a wind tunnel model),
1376 was the A 36,
1377 like 1376 but with dorsal air intake,
the "U-plan" was also in this series (a variable geometry turborocket submersible M 2 fighter
1400 (1955): Fighter and attack projects, often STOL or VTOL,
1410 was a STOVL fighter with afterburning nozzles in and as the flaps, also good for reversing, M 2+,
1421B was a M 2.8 Draken replacement in 1956
1443 a Mirage III (independently arrived at) lookalike with M 2.3
1500 (1958): STOL and VTOL projects which led to 37 Viggen
1500-01 pretty like a Harrier
1504 in 1961 looked very much like Viggen
1508A2
1534 became 37 Viggen,
1536 a VTOL Viggen
1600 (1968): B3LA predecessors, 1638 rather similar
1700: Higher performance B3LA versions, not much studied
1800 (1972): 1806 was the final B3LA
1900 (1979): Flygplan 80 ("Aircraft 80") and JAS 39 predecessors
2000: Briefly studied JAS 39 predecessors
2060: Modernised (partly Gripen avionics, powerful engines, partly composite construction) Saab 105 mainly intended for USAF. Early 1990's.
2100: 2110 became 39 Gripen

Projects which got so far they got Swedish air force designations

For J 19, J 23, J/B 24, J 27, A 36 and B3LA see the Cancelled Saab projects page.