page_title: French aircraft carrier Arromanches
section_title: Aircraft
hierarchical_section_title: French aircraft carrier Arromanches / Weapons and systems / Armament / Aircraft
context_page_description: Arromanches was an aircraft carrier of the French Navy, which served from 1946 to 1974. She was previously HMS Colossus of the Royal Navy. She was the name-ship of the Colossus class of light carriers. She was commissioned in 1944, but did not see any action in World War II. She served with the British Pacific Fleet in 1945–46, as an aircraft transport and repatriation ship.
  In 1946, she was loaned to the French Navy, and renamed Arromanches; she was bought by the French in 1951.
  Arromanches participated in the First Indochina War in three campaigns from 1948 to 1954, and the Suez Crisis of 1956. In 1968 she was converted to an anti-submarine warfare carrier. She was decommissioned in 1974, and broken up in 1978.
context_section_description: During her time in service, before 1968 she also carried the Breguet Br-1050 Alizé, the Vought F4U-7 Corsair, the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat, the Fouga CM-175 Zéphyr, the Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver, the Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless, the SNCASE Aquilon, the Supermarine Seafire Mk III and XV, and the Grumman TBM Avenger. During her time in service, after 1968, she also carried the Alouette II and Alouette III, the Sikorsky S-51, Sikorsky S-55, and Sikorsky S-58, the Piasecki H-21 and Piasecki H-25, and the Morane-Saulnier MS-500 Criquet.
caption: The Breguet Alizé
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