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.

Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner, formerly known as the Swearingen Metro and then as the Fairchild Aerospace Metro, offers a 19-seater, pressurized, twin-turboprop types airliner produced by the Swearingen Aircraft and by the Fairchild Aircraft in the plants at San Antonio, Texas.

2022年3月13日 · I didn't, either, until I recently took a flight aboard one of the most unique passenger planes flying in the U.S. right now, the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner. This plane was popular with regional airlines in the 1980s and 1990s, but now just a single airline operates it — and on a single route.

2021年8月28日 · The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner is a classic twin-turboprop design that has seen extensive military and commercial service worldwide. Production of the type began in 1968, but the story of the Metroliner goes further back. Indeed, the aircraft had its roots in the Swearingen Merlin.

The Fairchild C-26 "Metroliner" is the designation for the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner series twin turboprop aircraft in the service of the United States military. It was not officially named by the US Armed Forces, [1] but is unofficially known by the same name as its civilian counterpart. [2]

The Fairchild-Swearingen SA226 / SA227 Metro / Metroliner is a twin-engined regional airliner with pressurized cabin for up to 19 passengers produced by the US-American manufacturer Swearingen Aircraft, later Fairchild-Swearingen.

The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner or the Fairchild Aerospace Metro is a 19-seat, pressurised, twin turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild at a plant in San Antonio, Texas, United States.

The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner is a 19-seat, pressurised, twin turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild at a plant in San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was developed from the Merlin 3 providing …

The Metroliner came to be as a stretch of the Merlin. It was equipped with the same inverted Garret AiResearch TPE331s, but lengthened to accommodate up to nineteen passengers. Fairchild purchased Swearingen, but continued the Metroliner and Merlin brands. Indeed, they kept production of the Metroliner going until 2001.

Fairchild (Swearingen) Metroliner & Merlin IV Swearingen Aircraft developed this commuter aircraft at the end of the 1960s from the smaller SA26T Merlin II corporate turboprop, from which only the cockpit win­dows are a reminder.