The Dassault Mirage IIIO was manufactured in Australia by the Government Aircraft Factories and Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation between 1963 and 1968.

One hundred Mirages were delivered for service with the RAAF.

In 1960 the Australian government decided that the Dassault Mirage III would become Australia’s front line interceptor.

The first two Mirages were made in France but the rest were assembled in Australia with CAC making the wings and engines and the GAF making the fuselages and assembling them.

The first Australian assembled Mirage, A3-3, flew on 16 November 1963 and the final one, A3-100, was delivered in December 1968.

This model represents A3-2, the second Mirage IIIO, flying with the Aircraft Research and Development Unit in the 1970s.

Frog 1/72 kit with Roodecals and Hasegawa decals completed by Leigh Edmonds in August 2005.