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Armée de l'Air
Logo de l'Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace.svg
Founded 1934
Country France
Insignia
Roundel Roundel of France.svg
Aircraft flown
Attack Dassault Mirage 2000, Dassault Rafale
Electronic
warfare		 Beoing E-3F SDA
Fighter Dassault Mirage 2000, Dassault Rafale
Interceptor Dassault Mirage 2000, Dassault Rafale
Reconnaissance Dassault Mirage 2000, Dassault Rafale, EADS Harfang,
Trainer Grob G.120, SOCATA TB.30 Epsilon, Dassault-Breguet-Dornier Alpha Jet E, Eurocopter AS-555 Fennec,
Transport Airbus A310, Airbus A340, Airbus A400M, Boeing C-135FR, Lockheed C-130H and C-130H-30, Transall C.160, Casa CN-235, Aérospatiale SA-330 Puma, Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma, Eurocopter EC725 Caracal

The French Air Force (French: Armée de l'Air, literally Army of the Air) is the air force of France. It was formed in 1909 as the Service Aéronautique de l'Armée, part of the French Army, and finally independent in 1934 in its current form. In 2013 it has an important fleet of aircraft.

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French air force bases

In France the air force bases are called Bases Aériennes or BA and have a number, like Base Aérienne 117 in Paris.

Former aircraft of the French Air Force

Active aircraft of the French Air Force

Images for kids

  • COmpagnie d'aviateurs

    "Company of aviators", September 1914, by Jules Gervais-Courtellemont

  • C02797Watt1915

    French aircraft during World War I, flying over German held territory (1915)

  • NiD.29 du 33e RAM

    Nieuport-Delage NiD.29 C.1 fighter used in the early post-WWI period.

  • Dewoitine BA 112

    Dewoitine D.510 monoplane fighters from the mid-1930s

  • NA T28 Fennec

    A North American T-28 Trojan, used against guerrillas during the Algerian War

  • Dassault Mirage IIIC, France - Air Force AN0695826

    Mirage IIIC of EC 2/10 "Seine" pictured in 1980 armed with a Matra R.530

  • Two French air force Dassault Mirage F1C aircraft

    A 1986 view of a Mirage F1 from the Escadron de Chasse 2/30 Normandie-Niemen and another from the Escadron de Chasse 3/30 Lorraine, both armed with Matra R.530 missiles. Squadron insignias are visible on the two aircraft.

  • Mirage 2000C in-flight 2 (cropped)

    Mirage 2000 in flight

  • André Lanata - Cérémonie présentation et de passation du drapeau à la promotion 2016 X 2016

    Général d'armée aérienne André Lanata, former chief of staff of the French Air Force

  • Bases-aeriennes-france

    Air bases in Metropolitan France

  • Rafale - RIAT 2009 (3751416421)

    A French Air and Space Force Dassault Rafale B at RIAT in 2009

  • Air Defence Squadron Tursan Bastille Day 2013 Paris t114447

    Crotale missile-launchers of the Air Defense Ground-to-Air Squadron of the French Air and Space Force

  • Orange-Caritat Air Base

    Orange-Caritat Air Base

  • LFPY AIRPORT BRETIGNY FROM FLIGHT ORY-NCE A320 F-GHQJ (17144270049)

    Brétigny-sur-Orge Air Base

  • French Armed Forces2

    Fusiliers Commandos de l'Air at the opening of a war memorial

  • Calot armée de l'air

    Side cap of the French Air and Space Force personnel

  • Ecole Air Bastille Day 2007

    Students of the École de l'air (Air School) during the military parade of July 14th in 2007 on the Champs-Élysées

  • French Mirage 2000 finishes refueling from KC-10A 2009-12-06

    Mirage 2000C

  • Mirage 2000D (26432497715)

    Mirage 2000D

  • Rafale RIAT 2016 3468

    Rafale C

  • Boeing E-3F Sentry (8)

    E-3F Sentry

  • Transall C-160R R213 64-GM (9410577524)

    Transall C-160R

  • A400M - RIAT 2010 (6703188983)

    A400M

  • Airbus A330 MRTT F-UJCG - French Air Force

    A330 MRTT

  • HERCULES C-130 FRENCH AIR FORCE (50111092793)

    C-130J

  • Boeing C-135FR Stratotanker France - Air Force, RHE Reims (Champagne), France PP1246782647

    C-135FR

See also

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