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Farnborough 2018: ATAC grows its Mirage F1 fleet

13th July 2018 - 12:11 GMT | by Trevor Nash in London

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US adversary air specialists, Textron-owned ATAC, has now received the first 13 of a total of 63 Mirage F1 aircraft from the French Government. The aircraft have been delivered to the ATAC Adversary Center of Excellence (ATAC-ACE) at Fort Worth Alliance airport in Texas.

ATAC ACE was established earlier this year and is charged with providing flight operations management, maintenance and pilot training for the new fleet of Mirage F1s. The remaining 50 aircraft will be delivered over the coming months.

According to ATAC, the company’s purchase of the 63 Mirage F1s in July 2017, ‘marks the largest global

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