This MRTT took the skies for the first time on 25 May 2022, it received Airbus test registration F-WWYN and EC-337 but also MRTT049. The tanker/transporter was later on delivered to the l'Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace (AAE) and ERVTS 2/31 "Estérel" at Base Aérienne 125 Istres-Le Tubé on 30 November 2022. The squadron is s part of the Istres MRTT inventory and was officially transfered from Creil (even acft were physically positoned at Paris-Roissy (Charles de Gaulle) to Istres on 11 July 2023.