The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner, earlier the Swearingen Metro and later the 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. It evolved from the Swearingen Merlin turboprop business aircraft, which Ed Swearingen had developed from modified Beechcraft Twin Bonanza and Queen Air airframes. The Metro is a stretch of the Merlin III, first sized for 22 passengers and then optimized for 19 because United States rules limited an airliner to 19 seats if no flight attendant was carried. Prototype construction began in 1968 and the first flight was on 26 August 1969, with two Garrett TPE331 turboprops as the standard engines.
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first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San Antonio, Texas
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the first flight was on August 26, 1969
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19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner
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first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San Antonio, Texas
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first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San Antonio, Texas
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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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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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