Group ministerial air links

The Groupe of Ministerial Air links was created with Villacoublay in 1945 and was dissolved in 1995.

Its role was to ensure air transports of the political personalities and soldiers of the French Republic. Its dissolution was officially decided to reduce the way of life of the presidency; nevertheless if the name changed, the service always exists under the denomination ETEC (Squadron of transport, drive and calibration).

During years its park of planes included/understood:

of Dassault MD315 Flamingo
Bréguet BR500
several four-engined planes Douglas DC-4 and DC-6
a four-jet aircraft DC-8
a Caravel
of the Mystery-Falcon
of the Falcon 50
of the Falcon 900
two Airbus A319 CJ since 2001

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