MS.500, 1st GAO

Morane Saulnier MS.500 Criquet of the 1st GAO (Groupe Artillerie Observation). These Criquets were the first aircraft operated by the fledgeling VNAF in the early fifties. MS.500s were German Fieseler Fi-156 Storch (Stork) aircraft built under licence by the Morane Saulnier aircraft company of France. During the second world war for the Luftwaffe, after that for the French air force. (Photo: J. Lebourg)