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Constructed as a Mirage 4000.
This is the prototype Mirage 4000. French aeronautical manufacturer Dassault-Breguet self-financed the development of the Mirage 4000 which was responsible for the airframe and supervised the assembly phase. Jet engines were borrowed from the government under the June 21, 1978 agreement with the Minister of Defense : the Snecma M 53 engines were taken from the stock of the Mirage 2000 program.

9 March 1979

First flight.
Flew at Istres.

The king of Saudi Arabia and the Shah of Iran were interested in the Mirage 4000 program even before its first flight. Although serious talks went on, no agreement on the sale was reached. No order was placed for the five planned production models and commercialization abroad became very uncertain.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Armee de l Air with s/n 01 {9}.
The airframe carried a military serial and a civilian registration concurrently.

By September 1982

Transferred to Centre Dessais En Vol (C. E. V-Flight Test Centre), Bretigny.

To Armee de Lair/Dassault with new c/r F-ZWRM.

10 September 1982

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: at Farnborough Air Show

8 January 1988

Last flight.

October 1996

To Musee Air and Space, San Jose, San Jose, Ile-De-France.
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10 June 2006

Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

9 March 2011

Photographer: Alexander Todt
Notes: Dassault Mirage 4000, Static Display Air and Space Museum Paris-Le Bourget (LFPB)

24 June 2011

Photographer: Alexander Todt
Notes: Mirage 4000, Air and Space Museum Paris-Le Bourget (LFPB)

4 August 2011

Photographer: Han de Ridder

4 August 2011

Photographer: Han de Ridder