Liverie for the Asobo/Inibuild SAAB 17.
HOW TO INSTALL: Simply extract or move "LIV_B17A" into your community folder.
In the late 30s ASJA (Swedish Railroad Workshops Air Plane Department) started sketching on a new design for a
bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, as a request from the Swedish Air Force.
In 1939 ASJA was reconstructed and integrated into "Svenska Aeroplane AB"... SAAB.
L10 was the design name, but later on the Airforce designations B17 and S17 was asigned.
B stands for BOMBER, and S for "SPANING" (reconnaissance). And the new SAAB-17 was born.
May 18 1940, the first flight of the new, and Swedish developed first all metal aircraft took place.
The first deliveries to the Swedish Airforce began in March 1942.
SAAB 17 with serialnumber 17111 (the 11th produced) was firs delivered to F7 Skaraborg Wing in may 1942 as a
B17B. (Where the A version had a Pratt & Whitney radial engine, and the B version had a Bristol Mercury XXiV radial)
There it got the marking 7-11. (7=F7 wing, 11= 11th aircraft in the 1st.division)
A year later the aircraft was reasigned to F3 Malmslatt Ostgota Wing in Linkoping, and ended up in 2.division.
(ICA code: ESCF)
It was also remade to a S17BS, a reconnaissance version of B 17B.
The new marking became 3-16.
(3=F3 wing, 16= 2nd aircraft in the 2nd.division. Expl: 1.division had flightnumber 1-15, 2.div 15-30, 3.div 31-45)
Here it also got the division emblem painted on the nose! For 2nd.div it was a yelow "bloodhound", who got the
nickname MOPPE.
17111 should have looked something like this until may 1945, when the Swedish Airforce developed new guidelines on
how the markings should look.
One of the biggest reasons for this was that 3st Swedish Caproni Ca 313 "S16A" had been
shoot down, probably by mistake as Swedish AF didnt had any designations of nation visible from above...
So the 3 crown roundel was now to be painted on the upper side of the wings.
Some other new guidelines were that the Wing/flotilla number should be painted in
yellow, behind the 3 crown roundel on the rear fuselage, and the division number was replaced with a coloured letter.
It seems also the division "noseart" disappeared at this time...
SAAB 17 no 17111 saw service untill april 1949, when it was scraped. By then been it's been airborne 769times, and
had almost 700 hours of runtime.
Hope you enjoy!
GulKalle