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Svea Air Corps

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Svea Air Corps (Svea flygkår), also F 8 Barkarby, or simply F 8, is a former Swedish Air Force air corps wing with the main base located in Barkarby just north of the capital Stockholm on the east coast. [1]

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  1. 68 relations: Överste, Barkarby, Barkarby Airport, Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann, Beechcraft Model 18, Bell 204/205, Blazon, Bloodhound (missile), Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight, Bristol Bulldog, Caproni Ca.313, Cessna 402, Coat of arms of Stockholm, Consolidated PBY Catalina, De Havilland DH.60 Moth, De Havilland Dove, De Havilland Dragonfly, De Havilland Tiger Moth, De Havilland Vampire, DFS Kranich, DFS SG 38 Schulgleiter, DFS Weihe, Douglas DC-3, Eastern Military District (Sweden), English Electric Canberra, Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner, FFVS J 22, Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Göta Wing, Gloster Gladiator, Gustaf V, Hawker Hart, Hawker Hunter, Jet aircraft, Klemm Kl 35, List of military aircraft of Sweden, Miles Falcon, Nils-Fredrik Palmstierna, North American NA-16, North American P-51 Mustang, North American T-6 Texan, Northrop A-17, Percival Pembroke, Piasecki H-21, Saab 105, Saab 17, SAAB 21, Saab 29 Tunnan, ... Expand index (18 more) »

  2. 1938 establishments in Sweden
  3. 1974 disestablishments in Sweden
  4. Corps of the Swedish Air Force
  5. Military units and formations disestablished in 1974

Överste

Colonel (Col) (överste, öv) is the most senior field grade military officer rank in the Swedish Army and the Swedish Air Force, immediately above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general.

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Barkarby

Barkarby is a district of Järfälla Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden and part of the contiguously built-up Stockholm urban area.

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Barkarby Airport

Barkarby Airport was a disbanded Swedish Air Force base, near Akalla north of Stockholm used for general aviation.

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Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann

The Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann is a twin-seat single-engine aerobatic monoplane trainer aircraft designed and built by the German aviation company Bücker Flugzeugbau.

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Beechcraft Model 18

The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas.

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Bell 204/205

The Bell 204 and 205 are the civilian versions of the UH-1 Iroquois single-engine military helicopter of the Huey family of helicopters.

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Blazon

In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image.

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Bloodhound (missile)

The Bristol Bloodhound is a British ramjet powered surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s.

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Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight

The Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is an American medium-lift tandem-rotor transport helicopter powered by twin turboshaft engines.

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Bristol Bulldog

The Bristol Bulldog is a British Royal Air Force single-seat biplane fighter designed during the 1920s by the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

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Caproni Ca.313

The Caproni Ca.313 was an Italian twin-engine reconnaissance bomber of the late-1930s.

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Cessna 402

The Cessna 401 and 402 are a series of 6 to 10 seat, light twin-piston engine aircraft.

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Coat of arms of Stockholm

The coat of arms of Stockholm depicts the head of Swedish king Saint Eric.

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Consolidated PBY Catalina

The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s.

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De Havilland DH.60 Moth

The de Havilland DH.60 Moth is a 1920s British two-seat touring and training aircraft that was developed into a series of aircraft by the de Havilland Aircraft Company.

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De Havilland Dove

The de Havilland DH.104 Dove is a British short-haul airliner developed and manufactured by de Havilland.

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De Havilland Dragonfly

The de Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly is a 1930s British twin-engined luxury touring biplane built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company at Hatfield Aerodrome.

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De Havilland Tiger Moth

The de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth is a 1930s British biplane designed by Geoffrey de Havilland and built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company.

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De Havilland Vampire

The de Havilland Vampire is a British jet fighter which was developed and manufactured by the de Havilland Aircraft Company.

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DFS Kranich

The DFS Kranich is a type of German glider.

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DFS SG 38 Schulgleiter

The Schneider DFS 108-14 SG-38 Schulgleiter (School glider) is a German high-wing, cable-braced, single-seat primary glider that was designed by Schneider, Rehberg and Hofmann at Edmund Schneider's factory at Grunau in 1938, hence the designation.

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DFS Weihe

The DFS Weihe (English: Harrier) is a German single-seat, high-wing, 18 metre wingspan, high-performance glider that was designed by Hans Jacobs in 1937-38.

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Douglas DC-3

The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company, which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II.

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Eastern Military District (Sweden)

Eastern Military District (Östra militärområdet, Milo Ö), originally IV Military District (IV.) was a Swedish military district, a command of the Swedish Armed Forces that had operational control over Eastern Sweden, for most time of its existence corresponding to the area covered by the counties of Östergötland, Södermanland, Stockholm, Uppsala and Västmanland. Svea Air Corps and Eastern Military District (Sweden) are Stockholm Garrison.

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English Electric Canberra

The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation, jet-powered medium bomber.

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Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner

The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San Antonio, Texas.

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FFVS J 22

The FFVS J 22 was a Swedish single-engine fighter aircraft developed for the Swedish Air Force during World War II.

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Fieseler Fi 156 Storch

The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch ("stork") was a liaison aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Fieseler.

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Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz

The Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz (Goldfinch) is a 1930s German two-seat biplane.

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Foreign Broadcast Information Service

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an open source intelligence component of the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Science and Technology.

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Göta Wing

Göta Wing (Göta flygflottilj), also F 9 Säve, or simply F 9, was a Swedish Air Force wing with the main base located near Gothenburg in south-west Sweden.

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Gloster Gladiator

The Gloster Gladiator is a British biplane fighter.

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Gustaf V

Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf; 16 June 1858 – 29 October 1950) was King of Sweden from 8 December 1907 until his death in 1950.

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Hawker Hart

The Hawker Hart is a British two-seater biplane light bomber aircraft that saw service with the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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Hawker Hunter

The Hawker Hunter is a transonic British jet-powered fighter aircraft that was developed by Hawker Aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Jet aircraft

A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by one or more jet engines.

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Klemm Kl 35

The Klemm Kl 35 is a German sporting and training aeroplane developed as a successor to the Kl 25.

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List of military aircraft of Sweden

This is a list of Swedish military aircraft since its start.

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Miles Falcon

The Miles M.3 Falcon is a 1930s British three/four-seat cabin monoplane aircraft designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Nils-Fredrik Palmstierna

''Friherre'' Major General Nils-Fredrik Palmstierna (8 March 1919 – 5 August 1990) was a Swedish Air Force officer.

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North American NA-16

The North American Aviation NA-16 was the first trainer aircraft built by North American Aviation, and was the beginning of a line of closely related North American trainer aircraft that would eventually number more than 17,000 examples, notably the T-6 Texan family.

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North American P-51 Mustang

The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter-bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts.

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North American T-6 Texan

The North American Aviation T-6 Texan is an American single-engined advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), United States Air Force (USAF), United States Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and other air forces of the British Commonwealth during World War II and into the 1970s.

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Northrop A-17

The Northrop A-17, also known as the Northrop Model 8, a development of the Northrop Gamma 2F model, was a two-seat, single-engine, monoplane, attack bomber built in 1935 by the Northrop Corporation for the United States Army Air Corps.

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Percival Pembroke

The Percival Pembroke is a British high-wing twin-engined light transport aircraft built by the Percival Aircraft Company, later Hunting Percival.

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Piasecki H-21

The Piasecki H-21 Workhorse/Shawnee is an American helicopter, the fourth of a line of tandem rotor helicopters designed and built by Piasecki Helicopter (later Boeing Vertol).

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Saab 105

The Saab 105 is a Swedish high-wing, twinjet trainer aircraft developed in the early 1960s as a private venture by Saab AB.

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Saab 17

The Saab 17 is a Swedish single-engine monoplane reconnaissance dive-bomber aircraft of the 1940s originally developed by ASJA prior to its merger into Saab.

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SAAB 21

The SAAB 21 is a Swedish single-seat low-wing monoplane fighter and attack aircraft designed and manufactured by SAAB.

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Saab 29 Tunnan

The Saab 29 Tunnan (The Barrel), colloquially also Flygande Tunnan (The Flying Barrel), is an early jet-powered fighter aircraft designed and produced by the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab.

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Saab 91 Safir

The Saab 91 Safir (Swedish for sapphire) is a three (91A, B, B-2) or four (91C, D) seater, single engine trainer aircraft.

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Saint Erik

Saint Erik (Erik den helige; Sankt Erik), also called Erik Jedvardsson, Eric IX, Eric the Holy, Saint Eric, and Eric the Lawgiver, was a Swedish king in the 12th century, 1156–1160.

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Schneider Grunau Baby

The Schneider Grunau Baby was a single-seat sailplane first built in Germany in 1931, with some 6,000 examples constructed in some 20 countries.

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Seversky P-35

The Seversky P-35 is an American fighter aircraft built by the Seversky Aircraft Company in the late 1930s.

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Sparmann S-1

The Sparmann S-1 was a 1930s Swedish military training monoplane, designed by Edmund Sparmann, built in small numbers for the Swedish Air Force.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Stockholm Bromma Airport

Stockholm Bromma Airport is a Swedish domestic and minor international airport in Stockholm.

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Sud Aviation Caravelle

The Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle is a French jet airliner produced by Sud Aviation.

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Svenska Aero Jaktfalken

Svenska Aero Jaktfalken ("The Gyrfalcon") was a Swedish biplane fighter aircraft, constructed in the late 1920s.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Swedish Air Force

The Swedish Air Force (Svenska flygvapnet or just Flygvapnet) is the air force branch of the Swedish Armed Forces.

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Swedish Armed Forces

The Swedish Armed Forces (help|lit.

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Swedish Army Museum

The Swedish Army Museum (Armémuseum) is a museum of military history located in the district of Östermalm in Stockholm.

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Underground hangar

An underground hangar is a type of hangar for military aircraft, usually dug into the side of a mountain for protection.

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United States Joint Publications Research Service

The Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) was a United States government defense-funded organization that was absorbed into the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) but its funding and personnel did not transfer.

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Uppland Wing

Uppland Wing (Upplands flygflottilj), also F 16 Uppsala, or simply F 16, is a Swedish Air Force wing with the main base located at Ärna Air Base northwest of Uppsala, Sweden.

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Västmanland Wing

Västmanland Wing (Västmanlands flygflottilj), also F 1 Hässlö, or simply F 1, is a former Swedish Air Force wing with the main base located at Hässlö Airport in Västerås in central Sweden.

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Vickers Varsity

The Vickers Varsity is a retired British twin-engined crew trainer operated by the Royal Air Force from 1951 to 1976.

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See also

1938 establishments in Sweden

1974 disestablishments in Sweden

Corps of the Swedish Air Force

Military units and formations disestablished in 1974

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svea_Air_Corps

Also known as F 8 Barkarby, Stockholms flygflottilj, Svea Air Force Wing, Svea Wing, Svea flygflottilj, Svea flygkår.

, Saab 91 Safir, Saint Erik, Schneider Grunau Baby, Seversky P-35, Sparmann S-1, Stockholm, Stockholm Bromma Airport, Sud Aviation Caravelle, Svenska Aero Jaktfalken, Sweden, Swedish Air Force, Swedish Armed Forces, Swedish Army Museum, Underground hangar, United States Joint Publications Research Service, Uppland Wing, Västmanland Wing, Vickers Varsity.