As the Rafale is only slowly introduced in operational service, the backbone of the Armée de l'Air is still the Mirage 2000, in many versions. One of the oldest planes in active duty is shown here, based at Cambrai with EC 01.012. However disembandment is near and so is the retirement of this Mirage 2000C.

The Alpha Jets of EE 05.002 and their pilots perform many roles, including one known as the Aggressor during air-to-air missions. Other roles include banner towing or radar calibration flights. Furthermore, the unit also conduct ground attack missions (CAS) for the training of Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTAC) and Forward Air Controllers (FAC).

There were fifteen Boeing C-135FR tanker aircraft delivered but one has crashed in 1972. The remaining have been modified with four CFM56 engines delivered. The C135FR are equipped with one centreline mounted flyable boom. A boom drogue adapter (BDA) can be set for probe equipped aircraft. Also, it is fitted with 2 wing mounted FRL Mk32B air refuelling pods.

The tiger spirit is clear in this abundant colour scheme, celebrating the Tiger Meet 2009 at Kleine Brogel, Belgium. Both flights of EC 05.330 have a tiger in their badge, as is EC 05.330 itself. This test unit, part of CEAM, has also all other fighters in its inventory.

The C160 Transall entered service with ET61 at Orleans in 1967 replacing the N2501 Noratlas. The first batch consisted of 50 aircraft and in addition to those three former pre-production aircraft also entered service with the unit. An additional batch of 26 C160NG (Nouvelle Generation) was ordered in the late seventies to reequip ET64 at Evreux. Among these aircraft are two C160G Gabriel ELINT coversions and four C160H ASTARTE aircraft which serve as platforms for communications with the French navy's nuclear submarine fleet, but these have been stored now. Over the past years the remaining Transall fleet have been upgraded to C160R standard.

With the unit marking of SPA15 on its tail, this two-seat Rafale B, number 313/113-HI, belongs to EC01.007, an active unit based at St Dizier. From March 2007, three Rafales had been deployed to Dushanbe in Tajikistan, armed with the GBU-12 guided bombs, to support the war in Afghanistan.