AP 118 · No. 10 Section II · Aircraft 1967

Aircraft hub · 1967 · Cold War

Saab Viggen & Draken

Sweden’s double-delta and thunderbolt — designed to operate from motorways, parked now at Newark. The gazetteer currently lists it at 1 UK museum.

1967
First flight
~940
Built
Mach 2.1
Top speed
1
Museum

Last verified 2026-10-11 against the gazetteer Compendium. Airframes move — confirm on museum pages before travel.

On charge

Where to see the Saab Viggen & Draken in the UK

The gazetteer records 2 Saab Viggen & Draken airframes (including cockpit sections and replicas where noted) across 1 UK collection, in one region: Midlands & Lincolnshire.

MuseumCityRegionAirframes recorded
Newark Air MuseumChecked 2026-10-08 Newark Midlands & Lincolnshire Saab RF-35 Draken AR-107
Saab AJSH 37 Viggen 37918

3D model

The AJSH 37 Viggen in 3D

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as 37918, Newark Air Museum’s Saab AJSH 37 Viggen, built as an SH 37 maritime reconnaissance Viggen and rebuilt in 1995 as one of 25 AJSH 37 multi-role conversions, which served with the Swedish Air Force’s F 17, F 10 and F 21 wings before it was flown into RAF Cranwell in February 2006 and lent to the museum at Newark: Sweden’s canard-delta strike and reconnaissance fighter, 34 ft 9 in in span, with one Volvo RM8 afterburning turbofan fed by side intakes and fitted with a thrust reverser, a large high-set canard foreplane with trailing-edge flaps just behind the intakes, a low-set double-delta main wing with a dogtooth leading edge, a tall swept fin, a small ventral fin and tandem-wheel main undercarriage, shown standing level on its tricycle undercarriage with the canopy raised, a grey centreline drop tank and a reconnaissance pod on the starboard fuselage pylon: four-colour Swedish splinter camouflage in light yellow-green, mid green, black-green and brown over grey undersides, a black radome, a yellow ‘21’ on the nose, Swedish three-crown roundels on the forward fuselage and the wings, a red ‘57’ on the fin, a dark fin-tip cap and yellow danger triangles on the intakes, as displayed (no photograph shows the whole of the upper surfaces, so the splinter pattern there is generated from the sampled colours and repeats on both sides, and no photograph shows the undersides, so their grey and the lower-wing roundels are assumed). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (997 KB) · Plate 191 in The Hangar

Computed from the survey

Collection context

Types you’ll see alongside

Aérospatiale Gazelle & Alouette, Aérospatiale Puma & Super Frelon, Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, Avro Anson, Avro Ashton.

Where the type is thickest

Midlands & Lincolnshire has 1 collection recording the type.

Type notes

The Saab Viggen & Draken in brief

TypeSaab Viggen & Draken
UK museums holding one1
Airframes recorded in this survey2

Serials are the gazetteer's survey snapshot of what each collection records on charge — restorations move between workshops and reserve hangars, so check the museum page for opening times and current display status before travelling. Every type across 119 museums is indexed in the Compendium.

Aircraft questions

Frequently asked

How many Saab Viggen & Draken airframes are left in the UK?

The Aviation Gazetteer records 2 Saab Viggen & Draken airframes in UK collections.

Which museum has the most Saab Viggen & Draken airframes?

Newark Air Museum has the most in this survey, with 2 recorded airframes.