These walk-around photos were taken at F11 Museum at Skavsta Airport outside Nyköping in 2022. They show a SAAB S 32C Lansen, individual number 32940 — the reconnaissance variant of Sweden's elegant swept-wing jet, designed in the early 1950s as the country's first truly modern military aircraft. The Lansen was a two-seater carrying both pilot and navigator, and the S 32C was optimised for maritime surveillance and photo-reconnaissance, equipped with a PS-431/A nose radar for ship detection, six cameras for both daylight and night photography, and provisions for photoflash bombs. All 45 S 32C aircraft served exclusively at F 11 in Nyköping, making it the perfect centrepiece for this museum.
The type entered service at F 11 in October 1958, replacing the piston-engined S 18A, and spent the following two decades flying operational reconnaissance missions across the Baltic Sea — monitoring Soviet naval activity throughout some of the most tense years of the Cold War. The last S 32C flight at F 11 took place on 18 November 1978. The aircraft on display, 32940, is a remarkable restoration in its own right: it was painstakingly assembled from the remains of three separate airframes that had been used for fire training and as shooting targets, brought back to exhibition condition by the museum's volunteers.