This is a test and development prototype with the manufacturer's designation T8-15 and the code 15 blue. It was used for the testing of the new R195 engine. However, for the Paris Air Show this was replaced by a standard R95Sh engine because the R195 was still secret, and the code was changed to 301 blue which actually was the Le Bourget exhibit code. In 1990 it was converted to a Su-25BM prototype (Sukhoi designation T8BM-2). It later went to the Central Aerodrome Museum at Moscow-Khodynka and when that closed in 2003 it went to the Museum of Technology of Vadim Zadorozhny in Arkhangelskoye.

Though intended for the civil market, the 407AH will be equipped with two weapons, the Dillon 7.62mm M134T minigun and M260 2.75in seven-shot rocket launcher. The aircraft is the latest attempt by Bell to establish an armed version of the light single-engine airframe for the security market

Registered as G-BTNK prior to delivery to United Express/Air Wisconsin as N860AW in 1991. Returned as G-BTNK in 1996. Reregistered as G-CORP in 1998 and used as a corporate transport by British Aerospace/Bae Systems. To West Air Sweden as SE-MAP in 2007 and converted to a freighter. To West Air Europe as LX-WAE in 2011 and returned as SE-MAP in 2015.

Registered as G-BTNK prior to delivery to United Express/Air Wisconsin as N860AW in 1991. Returned as G-BTNK in 1996. Reregistered as G-CORP in 1998 and used as a corporate transport by British Aerospace/Bae Systems. To West Air Sweden as SE-MAP in 2007 and converted to a freighter. To West Air Europe as LX-WAE in 2011 and returned as SE-MAP in 2015.

This was once a AS.332C but converted to AS332F as first serial Super Puma. The helicopter was demonstrated with probably dummy nose radar and sponsons at Paris. It is reported to be re-converted to AS332C for export to Canada

Early production Djinn wearing only F-MAYI military call sign when on display at the 1957 Paris Air Show.

Preserved now in Monino museum. Russia. From friend's family archive.

The US Army wanted an attack helicopter that was better than its AH-1 Cobra in leathality, firepower, performance and range with high maneuverability for nap-of-the-earth flying. This resulted in the Advanced Attack Helicopter contest on 15 Nov 1972. Proposals were submitted by Bell, Boeing Vertol/Grumman team, Hughes, Lockheed, and Sikorsky. In Jul 1973, Bell and Hughes were finalist and could develop their proposals. In 1976 the Apache was selected. In 1983 the 2nd AH-64 prototype (this AV2) visited Le Bourget. Hughes was purchased in 1984 by McDonnell Douglas that merged with Boeing in 1997.

This F27 Maritime Patrol Aircraft was sold to Nigeria as NAF907. The aircraft was delivered in June 1988 and withdrawn from service at Benin since March 1996.

N792TW was delivered to Trans World Airlines (TWA) on 29 Aug'64, and served with the same registration Global International from Jul'80, Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) from November 1980, again Global International from Dec'80, Faucett Peru from Nov'81 and returned to manufacturer Boeing on 22 Oct'82. The 707 was modified and served as a prototype for the 707 tanker transporter - visited Paris in a promotion campaign in 1983 - until Nov'84 when it was sold to the Spanish Air Force as T.17-2. It served the military with code 45-11 and 47-02 until 12 March 2015 when it was stored at Torrejon.

This unique DHC-5 Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft (QSRA) variant was a NASA research aircraft modified to study and develop Short Take Off and Landing (STOL) technology. The QSRA was among other things modified with 4 Lycoming F102 turbofan engines. It first flew in this configuration in 1978. This aircraft even performed a landing and takeoff on the US aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, (of course) requiring neither arresting gear nor catapult launch. The techniques learned from this Buffalo stood model for the Boeing YC-14/C-17 programme and is now preserved at Moffett Museum's airpark (CA)

Present at the static of Le Bourget was this Alpha Jet, destined for the Egypt Air Force. The aircraft was delivered shortly after the show to El Minya air base where it was assigned to the Weapon Training Brigade. Egypt ordered thirty MS1 variants of which four were built in France while 26 were assembled in Egypt during the late 70s and early 80s. Fifteen new-built MS2 were ordered in the early 80s, directly produced by the manufacturer.

This Tigereye (FMS serial 84-0194) became 1708 in Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) service. The aircraft was withdrawn from use from 10sq (operating out of Taif/King Fahd Air Base) in the late nineties. Northrop used the aircraft in 1983 during its promotion campaign for the type at the international trade show at Le Bourget.

A Mirage 5 destined for the Egypt air force at the static display at Le Bourget. On the tail you can read the Arabic digits of the serial.