Following negotiations, a licence was granted for the Aerovan to be manufactured in France, but no such aircraft were ever manufactured in the country. A single Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) aircraft was converted for aerial fertiliser spreading, while a second for aeromagnetic survey work, although it proved to be unsuccessful. A single Mark 4 was used for research with a Hurel-Dubois high aspect ratio wing in 1957, being then known as the "Miles HDM.105". The prototype, which was retroactively designated the Mark 1, was later fitted with a 5/6th scale replica of the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba turboprop nacelle for the Miles Marathon; it was also subsequently outfitted with ailerons in line with the standard flaps.