Sporting the Tunis-based GAOA n°5 insigna, this NC.856 wears the c/n 97 but is in fact a composite aircraft built from several frames. This angle reveals what a complicated aircraft this was: noteworthy are the "crocodile" ailerons (the lower part being used to suplement the landing flaps) as well as the vertical (and retractable) plates, on the wing undersurface, designed to generate extra drag inside the turn, thus counteracting the adverse yaw. 112 NC.856s were produced for the Artillery Aviation, soon to become the ALAT.

The Norvigie army co-operation aircraft could be used as an ambulance - note the dummy stretcher case inside.