1939

ASJA and Saab competed with each other to build a reconnaissance aircraft for the Swedish Air Force. Although the order went to ASJA, the company’s activities were effectively taken over by Saab in early 1939 and what subsequently evolved into a single-engined light bomber, Aircraft 17, became an exclusively Saab project. In all, 322 aircraft were built. Saab’s next design was Aircraft 18, a twin-engined medium-heavy bomber, of which 242 were built.