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C/n 16 on this vertical surface corresponds to the AO coded Mirage IV. The picture reveals a neat and strong actuator for the mobile surface and the elaborated piece of boiler-works constituting the variable exhaust nozzle section. The scorpion applied is the insigna let by chaps of EB 3/91 Beauvaisis, a Mirage IV A equipped squadron bomber flying then from the N° 110 Creil Air Base. Oppositely to fighter, recce, transport and other aircraft in units, the nuclear FAS Mirage IVs and C-135Fs tankers never had their historical flight insignas officially painted on aircraft. Normally, this N° 16 Istres based machine belonging to EC 1/93 Guyenne owned traditions of BR 66 and 129 WWI flights; The Guyenne found its origins in April 1944, being formed as Bomber Squadron II/23 with Halifaxes at Elvilton as RAF 346th Squadron. Disbanded during November 1945, it was created again during December 1956 as bomber squadron 3/91 in Algeria with Douglas B-26 Invaders before gaining Istres to become EB 1/93 at Istres with Mirage IVs early in the sixties. To be compicated, after the 1976 deep reorganisation of FAS, 1/93 became, in July of that year, the EB 1/94 with the same province name of Guyenne...
