France close to selling 64 Mirage F1s to the United States

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France close to selling 64 Mirage F1s to the United States

Post by Dan Gagnon » Sun Jun 25, 2017 4:23 pm

It seems the US might see some new aircraft flying around soon! The Mirage F1 was retired from the French Air Force in 2014. Now it seems they might be selling 64 aircraft to either Draken International or Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC). Draken, a private contractor and ATAC a government contractor both use their services to help train those in the USAF, USN and ANG.

Draken has an 80 aircraft fleet including the A-4 Skyhawk, MiG-21, MBB-339, L-39, and L-159E. ATAC has a 20 aircraft fleet including Hawker Hunter, F-21 KFIR, A-4, and L-39.

Here is an article of the possible sale. It is translated using Google Translate

https://translate.google.com/translate? ... edit-text=
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Post by RyanS » Sun Jun 25, 2017 8:16 pm

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Post by Dan Gagnon » Tue Aug 29, 2017 2:25 pm

To follow up on this story, ATAC will be the contractor acquiring 63 Mirage F1s. It will be very cool to see Mirage F1s closer to home. Hopefully we get to see some flying around!

Here is a link to the article:

http://theaviationgeekclub.com/atac-bou ... hter-jets/
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Post by awal2049 » Thu Jul 12, 2018 10:57 pm

Draken has received its first Mirage.

http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/d ... e-f1m.html
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