18 white was the marking of this aircraft when it arrived in Paris in 1945. 21 white was a previous identity, that appeared during restoration.

This Spitfire is in reality RR263 and was presented to France by the British Government to honour the memory of the French pilots that flew with the Royal Air Force. It was repainted into the colours of the plane flown by Adjt Charasse of 340 Squadron, Ile de France.

This C-160 acquired its name as it accompanied three Zairian C-130 Hercules to parachute soldiers of the French Foreign Legion into Kolwezi in May, 1978 to free French hostages after Katangese soldiers, supported by Angola, occupied the city. The plane was retired to the museum in August, 2012.

This 727-22F was built in January 1966, and purchased by FedEx in June 1989, going on fly with the company for more than 18 years. The plane was donated to the museum during the 2007 Paris Air Show and is one of 35 of the type that FedEx donated to various aviation schools, aeronautical museums and other institutions all over the world.

In the 1950s, designer René Leduc was awarded a contract for two examples of a short-range supersonic interceptor, intended to fulfill the high-speed interceptor role. The first prototype had a thick barrel-like monocoque fuselage with a coaxial turbojet-ramjet powerplant to enable unassisted operation, and a protruding nose section housing the cockpit and escape capsule for the pilot. It reached a speed of Mach 1.15 in December 1957, but was damaged shortly afterwards when it caught fire while taking off. The program was cancelled shortly afterwards. This is the unflown second prototype 022.

The C.8 was built by Juan La Cierva in England in association with Avro following an order from the Air Ministry of Great Britain. This made its first flight in July 1926 but later superceded by the C.8L-II in May 1928. As G-EBYY, it participated in the King's Cup, made a 4850 km tour of the UK and then completed an incident-free crossing of the Channel from London (Croydon) to Paris (Le Bourget). This was the first international flight of a rotary-wing machine which earned Cierva numerous accolades and prizes.

The F-86D Sabre Dog was an all-weather interceptor, from which in 1953 an "export" model, the F-86K, was developed equipped with a fire control system and guns. From 1956 to 1962, the 13e escadre de chasse operated 60 frames for the single purpose of opposing an attack by Soviet muclear bombers.

After the USA, France was the biggest user of H-34A Choctaw. The AdlA used 215 from 1959 onwards, including 155 built under license by Sud Aviation. This H-34 was the first of the Sud airframes to be delivered.

Although painted as N556, this is actually N976. In the spring of 1914, Gustave Delage designed a small (baptized "Bébé" Nieuport because of its size) single-seat biplane to take part in the Gordon-Bennett Cup. From this humble beginning, a combat aircraft emerged in Autumn 1915 with great agility and manoeuvrability, due in large part because the lower wing is slightly smaller than the upper wing. This example is on display in the colours of Commander Charles de Tricornot de Rose, an air combat pioneer who grouped these new fighters into dedicated units, so they could operate together more effectively.

The CL-215 was the first plane ever designed solely for firefighting. In total Canadair produced 125 sold to seven different countries. The Sécurité civile used the CL-215 since 1969, with the last flight of taking place in October, 1996 being superceded by to the more powerful CL-415. This example arrived at the museum for display in April 2009.

This F-13 is one of a batch of seven seized as war reparations. On display in the Inter-war Years Hall at this super museum.

In the 1950s, the engineer Igor Bensen developed the Gyro-copter with a rear engine and propeller. The Gary RG.01 is a subsequent modified version in terms of controls, aerodynamic surfaces and fairing. This is the only example built.

The Super Sabre D proved very popular with AdlA pilots. The type served with the French from 1958, for low-altitude nuclear response, until finally retired in Djibouti in 1979.

This R-Class Zeppelin made its first flight on 22nd February 1917 and made 15 reconnaissance missions around the Eastern Front and the Baltic Sea and (or including?) 3 attacks that dropped a total of 6,000 kilograms (13,000 lb) of bombs. In 1920 it was ordered to be transferred to France as part of war reparations and used there for testing and evaluation. Only the rear engine gondola survives and is on display at this super museum.

This three-engined heavy transport helicopter held the distinction of being the most powerful helicopter to be built in Europe as well as being the world's fastest. The Super Frelon (Super Hornet) was a more powerful development of the original SE.3200 Frelon, which had failed to enter production. In December 1962, this Super Frelon prototype made the type's maiden flight and around 110 of both civilian and military versions were produced. The type was in service in France with the Aéronavale until April 2010.

This 380 first flew in October 2005 and went on to represent Airbus and the type at airports and air shows all over the world. It has been prserved at this super museum since February 2017.

The Nord 1500 Griffon was an experimental ramjet-powered interceptor aircraft. The first plane 1500-01, with only the SNECMA Atar 101F afterburning turbojet, made its first flight in September, 1955 and quickly reached Mach 1.3. This 1500-02, fitted with the definitive turbo-ramjet powerplant, took off for the first time in January, 1957 and in August, 1958 became the first French aircraft to reach Mach 2. Subsequently, the "Griffon II" broke the international speed record over 100 kilometers on a closed circuit with 1,643 km/h and later achieved a speed of 2,330 km/h (Mach 2.19).

The DFS (Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug - German Research Institute for Gliding) Habicht (Hawk) was designed in 1936 by Hans Jacobs. Four Habichts enthralled spectators at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games by performing over and inside the Olympic stadium. It seems only two original Habichts survived WWII. This example was flown by famous French aerobatic pilot Marcel Doret, who won the aerobatic world cup for gliders with it in 1939. The other Habicht, registration D-8002, flew in Southern Germany until it was destroyed by the collapse of the hangar in which it was stored.

The Mystère 20 prototype on display in front of some more modern biz-jets, for which this plane blazed the way. The coloured sash on the nose signifies that this plane, with Jacqueline Auriol at the controls, set a female world speed record on June 10, 1965 with an average speed of 859 km/h over 1000 km.