A Mirage IIIS of the Swiss returning from a mission at homebase Dübendorf.

This Mirage III has been part of the Österreichisches Luftfahrtmuseum since May 2004.

At the end of its career the Mirages received staffel badges back, that they had received when they came into service. The reason was that with the introduction of the Hornet with Fl St 11, 17 and 18 the Mirages were relegated to second line duties with Fl St 16, that became a militia staffel then.

At the Dubendorf Air Show 1972.

When FlSt 16 became a militia unit the 16 squadron badge started to reappear.

36 Mirage IIIS interceptors were built in Switzerland with strengthened airframes, the Swiss AF requiring integrity of carrier-based aircraft standards, allowing crane lifting in the mountain cavern hangars and JATO take-offs. The surviving 30 were withdrawn in 1999, by then in grey camouflage, and this one was stored at Buochs-Ennetbü, although the cockpit section is now preserved in Oslo