French Beute Aircraft

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Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik

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Wasn't both F-APQX and Y on loan from Adl'A?
They must both have been much easier to request back....
However I have chosen to keep it with the last letter unknown

Cheers
Stig

Hello Stig. Please don't believe I'm trying to make you feel miserable. I don't think that Armée de l'Air ever was called Adl'A in France. After all I was a combat aircrew with the AA. It was long ago but I don't think AA changed in the meantime similarly with awful German abbreviations during WWII with lots of /, ( ) etc.

Here is an example from today:

Contacts ⋆ L'École de l'airwww.ecole-air-espace.fr › ... › Réglementation
Points de contact DRH-AA/SDEF/BAF/DESC/CELLULE OFFICIERS TOURS. Direction des ressources humaines de l'armée de l'air (DRH-AA) Sous-direction ...

I looked quite hard on the Internet but I never found Adl'A even though foreigners (non-French people) seem to love it.

PS: L'École de l'Air is not a school for children aged 3-10 but it's the French Air Force's officers academy. When they leave it they are promoted to sous-lieutenant and very often pilots (but there are other kinds of officers of course).