A special paint for this Mirage IVP to commemorate that the type had gathered 337.000 hours of flying in between 1969 and 2005. For 'CF' its days were almost over: its code was repainted into C'est Fini' (It's over !)

EC1/3 based at Nancy-Ochey. Scanned from a Velvia slide

A rare presence of the complete call sign F-TFVU. In later years only the last two were present.

Escadron de Chasse (EC) 3/2 "Alsace"

In 1984, the French MoD launched a programme to equip the Armée de l'Air with a modern and reliable Signal and Comint (SIGINT/COMINT) collection aircraft to replace the six heavily modified Noratlas aircraft. Two C-160s were taken from the transport inventory, being F216 and F221. These became resp. C-160G-1 and C-160G-2 , both modified with a radome containing a COMINT espionage system under the belly of the aircraft, two pods at wingtips containing the ELINT systems and four antennas on top of the nose. From 1989 the first spionage C-160, now named Gabriel, became operational. Assigned to Escadron Electronique Aéroporté (EEA) 1/54 "Dunkerque"