SAMM pilot grips: family photo

SAMM pilot grips: family photo

Collectors know that these are 3 particularly rare objects. Rare because their production was necessarily limited, rare because some are old, rare finally because they never leave the collections where they are carefully preserved.

This is a Dassault family photo which illustrates 3 generations of machines. In the middle, you can recognize the S.A.M.M. Ref. 103 A. This one fitted a Mystère IV and/or a Super Mystère B2 and bears the following references: No. 3112 10390, date 11.61, repaired in 66 and overhauled in 69.

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The second is a S.A.M.M. is necessarily a type 203, since it is a grip of Mirage III. Unfortunately this one hasn’t its plate which was probably removed when the grip was dismantled. But its origin is indisputable and and fans will know it.

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The third and final is a grip is from a Mirage F-1C. This is a S.A.M.M. Ref. 208-502, No. 189, date 7.75, revised 11.88.

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You will rarely come across such a choice of grips from Dassault aircrafts, except of course on a collector's shelves, but in that case they certainly won't be for sale like these are!

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