With the Mirage III withdrawn, the air defence of Brasília and region is done temporarily by a mix of F-5s from 1st GAv and 1st / 14th GAv until 10 Mirage 2000Cs and two Mirage 2000B bought from French Air Force surplus stocks arrive at Anápolis.

That year, a transient air support base was created with the assistance of the French Air Force.

In 2004, following an air strikes on French peacekeepers by Ivorian forces, the French military destroyed all aircraft in the Air Force of Côte d ' Ivoire.

Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).

Two thousand French and Belgian troops, some of whom were flown in on U. S. Air Force planes, arrived to evacuate the 20, 000 endangered foreign nationals in Kinshasa.

Yehonatan Shimʻon Frenḳel writes that '.. the .. Air Wing was formed after the 1987 coup, when the French provided two helicopters as part of its military aid package.

The French Armed Forces encompass the French Army, the French Navy, the French Air Force and the National Gendarmerie.

It was not the world's first air force, because France's embryonic army air service, which eventually became the French Air Force ( Armée de l ’ Air ), was founded in 1909.

* 1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.

* Free French Special Air Service ( SAS ), the predecessor unit of the French 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment ( 1er RPIMa )

The next day, Arafat's body was flown from Paris aboard a French Air Force transport plane to Cairo, Egypt for a brief military funeral there, attended by several heads of states, prime ministers and foreign ministers.

** French General René Cogny and 94 others die in an Air France Caravelle jetliner crash near Nice in the Mediterranean.

** The French Air Force raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern Chad.

The Israeli Air Force alleged that the reactor's imminent commissioning was a threat to its security, and pre-emptively bombed the Osirak reactor on 7 June 1981, provoking considerable anger from French officials and the United Nations Security Council.

The Normandie-Niemen Regiment () was a fighter squadron, later regiment ( of three squadrons ) of the French Air Force.

The unit was the GC3 ( Groupe de Chasse 3 or 3rd Fighter Group ) in the Free French Air Force, first commanded by Jean Tulasne.

FAFL Normandie-Niemen Yak-3 preserved at the Paris Le Bourget French Air and Space Museum | museum.

37 Yak-3s were handed over to French Air Force and were used between June 1945 and April 1947.

Category: Military units and formations of the French Air Force

In 1801 the demoralised remains of the French army in Egypt were defeated by a British Expeditionary Force ; the Royal Navy used their dominance in the Mediterranean to invade Egypt without the fear of ambush while anchored off the Egyptian coast.

The group raced to the coast of the English Channel at Abbeville, thus isolating the British Expeditionary Force, Belgian Army, and some divisions of the French Army in northern France.

The Comorian Security Force ( French Armée nationale de développement ) consist of a small standing army and a 500-member police force, as well as a 500-member defense force.

The French Force de Frappe nuclear forces include both land and sea based bombers with Air-Sol Moyenne Portée high speed medium range nuclear cruise missiles.

* 1940 4 July – French bombers, based in French Morocco, carried out a retaliatory air raid over Gibraltar as a reprisal for the destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, by the Force H ( about 1, 300 French sailors were killed and about 350 were wounded in the action against the French fleet ).

Paris fell to the Germans on 14 June 1940, and the French leaders surrendered on 24 June 1940 after the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.

General de Gaulle was elected president in 1958 and made the French Force de Frappe, the nuclear power, a priority of the French Defence.

A French Jaguar aircraft crashed in Bangui in March 1986, killing 35 and leading to a resurgence in anti-French sentiment.

The regime was not saved even by overt French Air Force backing in 1978, when SEPECAT Jaguar fighters strafed and bombed Polisario guerrilla columns en route to Mauritania.

It was developed for the French Armée de l ' Air, initially carried by SEPECAT Jaguar and Mirage 2000 aircraft.

Although this was within the rules-no other car ran catalytic converters either-and Jaguar won its appeal ( supported by the FIA ), they were nonetheless disqualified as they had not-according to the L ' Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( the French automobile club )-lodged their appeal in time.

The visitors enjoyed the spectacular flying performances and static exhibitions of the Russian MiG-29K, Su-30MKI and Il-78 tanker ; the American F-15E, C-130J Super Hercules and P-3C Orion aircraft ; the French vintage Mirage 2000 and Falcon 2000 ; the British Hawk 100, Jaguar and Sea Harriers, and the Indian Dhruv ( Advanced Light Helicopter ) and Intermediate Jet Trainer ( IJT ) and the Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen.

Introduced in an update to Mac OS X v10. 2 " Jaguar ", Inkwell can translate English, French, and German writing.

While the Minas Gerais was not considered likely to be replaced until the next century, it was nonetheless decommissioned in 2001 following the purchase of the French aircraft carrier Foch.

The French military performed an overland attack on the airport, destroying two Sukhoi Su-25 ground attack aircraft and three Mi-24 helicopter gunships.

After a few months with no success by the French, he added other aircraft to drop napalm for clearing purposes.

When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.

The French chasseur and German Jagdflugzeuge are terms that continue to be used for fighters, and mean " hunter " and " hunting aircraft " respectively.

French aircraft designer Raymond Saulnier patented a practical device in April 1914, but trials were unsuccessful because of the propensity of the machine gun employed to hang fire due to unreliable ammunition.

Allied military action to enforce the ceasefire commenced the same day when a French aircraft opened fire and destroyed a vehicle on the ground.

The greatest failure for any German aircraft design in WW II was the always-troubled Heinkel He 177, one shown here captured by the Free French near the war's end.

* 1877 – Maurice Farman, French motor racing champion and aircraft manufacturer ( d. 1964 )

Receiving their sabotage orders through messages over the BBC radio or by aircraft, the French used both passive and active forms of sabotage.

Other equipment includes the Mirage 2000s, British Hawk aircraft, and French helicopters.

In the " Crimson Tide " example, the French Navy ( Marine Nationale ) assisted the production team with the French aircraft carrier Foch and one SNLE.

On 6 November 2004, Yamoussoukro Airport was attacked by French infantry after military aircraft from the airport bombed a UN peacekeeper base as well as rebel targets, 9 French peacekeepers and one U. S. civilian were killed.

** Maurice Farman, French aircraft designer ( b. 1877 )

* November 8 – Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer and pioneer rocket theorist ( d. 1957 )

* May 26 – Henri Farman, pioneer French pilot and aircraft designer ( d. 1958 )

* March 21 – Maurice Farman, French pilot and aircraft designer ( d. 1964 )

French use of an observation balloon marks the first participation of an aircraft in battle.

In 1998 the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau ( R98 ) was decommissioned after 37 years of service, and another aircraft carrier was decommissioned two years later after 37 years of service, leaving the French Navy with no aircraft carrier until 2001, when Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier was commissioned.