Frid Wänström

Frid Benjamin Filippus Wänström (May 8, 1905, Lidköping[1] – September 11, 1988, Linköping[2]) was a Swedish aviation engineer who after KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1932 was employed by the flygstyrelsen (predecessor to Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration), from 1936 head of the calculation department Saab AB in Linköping.

Frid Wänström is mentioned for leading the work with Saab 29 Tunnan.

[3] SAAB:s project manager Frid Wänström fetched these secret papers from Switzerland to Sweden in 1945.

[4] The documents came from engineers from Messerschmitt who moved to Switzerland at the end of World War II.

Frid Wänström was awarded the Swedish Aeronautical Society's Thulin Medal both in silver 1948 and in gold in 1968,[5] and contributed to the formation of the Saab Veterans Association.