Saab's 'special mission' aircraft searches for customers

Every morning these aircraft at Sweden's Scavsta airport are provided fuelled and fully serviced for Saab's military and civilian customers.

"It's our responsibility to keep the planes operational,'' says Bo Soderling, marketing director for Saab Services and Support.

"If we're lucky," he says, "at the end of the day we get them back in working order".

Any minor damage or small glitches are sorted by the team in Scavsta, but if an aircraft comes back with a bigger problem it can be sent to the Saab factory - an hour or so away - at Linkoping.

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