A French SNCASE S.E.2010 <i>Armagnac</i> (F-BAVD) in flight. F-BAVD was the first production series aircraft and flew on 30 December 1950. It went into service with "Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux" (TAI) on 8 December 1952. A total of four S.E.2010s were delivered to TAI in December 1952, who used them for eight months and then discarded them as unprofitable. The aircraft passed to SAGETA (the Société Auxiliaire de Gérance et d'Exploitation de Transport Aériens) in 1953 who operated seven <i>Armagnac</i>s to ferry cargo, mail and troops from Toulouse, France, to Saigon in French Indochina. They were highly regarded in this role, but French rule in the area was almost over and they were surplus by mid-1954. Most <i>Armagnac</i>s were broken up in 1955.
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U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News September 1956 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backissues/1950s/1956/Sep56.pdf">[1]</a>, p. 21.