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Cotam Unité is the official air traffic control call sign of any French Air Force aircraft carrying the President of France. From the 1960s to 1994, COTAM was the acronym for the French Air Force's Military Air Transport Command. In November 2010, the Governmental transport squadron (ETEC 65) received a newly refurbished Airbus A330 ordered by the government to be used as the presidential (or prime ministerial) aircraft replacing 2 Airbus A319. ETEC 65 also has the following aircraft for VIP transport:
- 2 Falcon 7X[1]
- 2 Falcon 900 (to be retired),
- 4 Falcon 50,
- 7 TBM 700,
- 3 Super Puma helicopters.
Current French presidential aircraft, an Airbus A330-200 (F-RARF).
In addition to the ETEC 65 operated Aircraft, Esterel Transport squadron also provides VIP transport using the following aircraft:
References
- "Le nouvel avion de Nicolas Sarkozy" Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine par jean Guisnel, Le Point.
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