Editing Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (section)

===Postwar activities===
[[File:Fieseler Fi-156 OE-ADS Sprayer STT 29.07.65 edited-3.jpg|thumb|right|An Austrian-registered ''Storch'' fitted with spraying equipment at [[Stuttgart Airport]] in 1965]]
Both the [[French Air Force]] (''Armée de l'Air'') and the [[French Army Light Aviation]] (''Aviation Légère de l'Armée de Terre'') operated the ''Criquet'' between 1945 and 1958. Accordingly, the type saw battlefield service in French hands during both the [[Indochina War]] and the [[Algerian War]].

The [[Swiss Air Force]], as well as several other mountainous European countries, continued to use the ''Storch'' to conduct rescue operations in challenging terrain where STOL performance was necessary. One of the more historically significant operations involving the type was the [[1946 C-53 Skytrooper crash on the Gauli Glacier|Gauli Glacier crash]] rescue in November 1946, where a pair of [[Swiss Air Force#History|''Flugwaffe'']]-flown Storches were the sole means of safely retrieving the twelve survivors of the crash. After the Second World War, numerous aircraft were used in utility roles, including [[Aerial application|agricultural spraying]]. Even into the twenty-first century, numerous Storches have remained operational, the type has become a common sight at air shows. In North America, both the [[Collings Foundation]] and the [[Fantasy of Flight]] museum have airworthy Fi 156 ''Storch'' aircraft in their collections.