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|image=File:Marche Verte patch.svg
|image_size=200px
|caption=Marche Verte patch 
|dates= 1988 – present
|country=  [[Morocco]]
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|branch= [[File:Moroccan Air Force.png|20px]] [[Royal Moroccan Air Force]] 
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|role= [[Aerobatic]] flight display team
|size= 7 Aircraft
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|colors= Red, Yellow, Green
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|aircraft_trainer=  [[CAP 230|Avions Mudry & Cie CAP 232]]
|aircraft_transport=[[CASA CN-235]].
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[[File:Plane of Marche Verte aerobatic team.jpg|thumb|left|A [[Mudry CAP 230]] of the Marche Verte aerobatic team]]
'''Marche Verte''' (English: Green March) is the [[aerobatic]] demonstration team of the [[Royal Moroccan Air Force]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The magnificent seventh {{!}} Times Aerospace |url=https://www.timesaerospace.aero/features/events/the-magnificent-seventh |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=www.timesaerospace.aero}}</ref> and the official aerobatic team of [[Morocco]]. The Marche Verte is named for the 1975 "[[Green March]]. The team was formed in 1988<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mahon |first=Mark |date=2018-02-12 |title=10 Aviation & Aerospace Facts in Morocco |url=https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2018/02/92289/aviation-aerospace-facts-morocco/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Morocco World News |language=en-US}}</ref> when French pilot [[Jean-Pierre Otelli]] was tasked with establishing an aerobatic team. Initially, the team consisted of only two planes. In the course of time this was increased to seven.

For aerobatic display purposes the team uses the [[France|French]] built trainer [[CAP 230|Avions Mudry & Cie CAP 232]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2017-10-01 |title=Royal Air Force Aerobatic Display Teams Celebrate Royal Air Maroc’s 60 Anniversary with Air Show |url=https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/10/95300/royal-air-force-aerobatic-display-teams-celebrate-royal-air-maroc-60-anniversary-air-show/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Morocco World News |language=en-US}}</ref> The support plane is a twin-[[turbo-prop]] [[CASA CN-235]].

==Fleet==
* 7 Avions Mudry & Cie CAP 232
* 1 CASA CN-235

== See also ==
* [[Royal Moroccan Air Force]]
* [[History of Western Sahara]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://aerobaticteams.net/en/teams/i93/Marche-Verte.html  Marche Verte]
*[http://meknes.skyrock.com/2644134414-Green-March-Marche-Verte.html  Text&clip]
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