Once in France, the aircraft was repaired and repainted.
The old Afriqiyah "9999" livery, which commemorated the declaration of a resolution to establish the African Union on September 9, 1999, was soon gone, replaced by a new one sporting the Libyan flag.
By 2013, the aircraft was ready to fly again, but rather than entering commercial service, it was retained by the Libyan government for its own use.
A short-lived tour, because, with the security situation in Libya deteriorating, by March 2014, 5A-ONE was back in Perpignan.
This time, though, its arrival on French soil marked the start of an international judicial imbroglio which has kept Gadhafi's Airbus grounded to this day.