Dassault Mirage IIID (A3-115) Two-Seat Operational Trainer, Royal Australian Air Force.

HISTORY: A3-115 is a two-seat operational trainer variant of the Mirage IIIO interceptor, one of 16 delivered to the Royal Australian Air Force. It was delivered in December 1973, the second last of the Australian Mirages.
During its RAAF career, A3-115 served with 2 OCU and with the Aircraft Research and Developent Unit (ARDU) at RAAF Edinburgh. It was withdrawn from RAAF service in December 1986 and was held by the Surveillance Research Laboratory, DSTO, Salisbury, unit 1999 when it went back to ARDU to be restored in ARDU colours. It was subsequently displayed at air shows held at RAAF Edinburgh before being installed as a 'gate guardian' at RAAF Edinburgh.
A3-115 was gifted to South Australian Aviation Museum by the RAAF in May 2018, arriving on 2 January 2019.
Source: South Australian Aviation Museum www.saam.org.au/

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