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Dassault Étendard

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ26261733 ↗
Source-derived summary

French aircraft manufacturer Dassault used the name Étendard ("Standard", in the sense of a flag or banner) for a family of related aircraft projects beginning in the late 1950s. Versions that at least reached prototype stage were:

Dassault Étendard II, a prototype for the French Air Force

Dassault Étendard IV, a strike fighter produced for the French Navy

Dassault Étendard VI, an unsuccessful competitor in the NBMR-1 NATO fighter competition

Dassault Super Étendard, a derivative of the Étendard IV that served with Argentine Naval Aviation, French Naval Aviation and the Iraqi Air Force.

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“Dassault Étendard” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dassault, Étendard and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 93-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dassault, Étendard and Wikimedia.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q26261733. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dassault Étendard” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.