BOB McLEOD COLLECTION
No. 7735. Fouga C.M.170R Magister (30 c/n 30) French Air Force
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Fouga C.M.170R Magister

03/15/2020. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "The thirtieth Magister was delivered to the French AF in 1957, and was assigned to the S.A.L.E. (Section d'Accueil, de Liaisons et d'Entraînement, introduction, liaison and training section) of the 3EC (3ème escadre de chasse, third fighter wing).

After 1980 the aircraft was withdrawn from service and came on the civil registry as F-WDHG, being donated to the Musee de l'Aéronautique de Nancy at the Nancy-Essey airport in 1982 and subsequently stored. In October 1993, on a ferry permit, the aircraft was flown to the Reims-Prunay airport, where it was put on display in front of the airport hotel l'Escale from 1998 to 2003. Subsequently parts of the aircraft were used to keep another Magister (F-GIGJ c/n 561) airworthy. In April 2010 the stripped aircraft was stored at Toussus-le-Noble Airport, where it still is as of this day."


Created April 30, 2008