SE-BSB Saab 90 Scandia
(c/n 90.105)
Despite the fact that the
Scandia was an efficient, reliable and economic airliner to operate,
Saab
built only 17 production examples. SE-BSB was the
fifth. SAS originally ordered six of them,
although this was augmented in 1954 to include two more. All the
others found a ready market
in Brazil - with Aerovias
Brasil initially, and then with VASP when that carrier bought out
the
former carrier. In
the event, even the SAS machines (four were SE- registered and two were
LN-)
also wound up in Brazil. SE-BSB became PP-SQW with
VASP in 1957. It is seen
above in the SAS livery of
the late 1940s.