1945: Heiligenbeil After the war March 1947: Rabat-Salé, () (dissolved in 1961). 29 October 1949: Saïgon May 1951: Oran Aerial Base 141 (Algeria) 13 March 1962: Orange-Caritat Air Base 1966: Reims – Champagne Air Base (BA 112) 13 October 1993: Colmar-Meyenheim Air Base (BA 132) 2011: Mont-de-Marsan Air Base (BA 118) Aircraft Yakovlev UT-2 - Basic training aircraft, used for training from 1 to 18 December 1942. Polikarpov Po-2 - Used for training from 1 to 18 December 1942, and later for liaison and courier duties. Yakovlev Yak-7V - Advanced training aircraft used for training between December 1942 and 25 January 1943. Yakovlev Yak-1b - Fighter aircraft used between 19 January and 22 March 1943 for advanced and dogfight training. The squadron originally received six planes; eight were sent in March 1943, and four at the end of April. They began to train new pilots in June, and remained in the squadron until the end of 1943. Yakovlev Yak-9D - Fighter aircraft used for training in Tula between early June and late July 1944. Two Yak-9Ds were still used on 10 September 1944. Yakovlev Yak-3 - Main fighter aircraft used from late July 1944 to May 1945. Thirty-seven Yak-3s were given to the French Air Force and used from June 1945 to April 1947. Yakovlev Yak-6 - Transport aircraft. Yak-1 Yak-9 Yak-3 - The squadron's last Yak-3 fighter is at the Musée de l'Air at Le Bourget Airport in Paris. De Havilland Mosquito Dewoitine D.520 - Flown in Lebanon. Bell P-63 Kingcobra Grumman F6F Hellcat Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Le Mistral - French-built de Havilland Vampire. SO.4050 Vautour Dassault Mirage F1 C Dassault Mirage F1 CT Dassault Rafale C Decorations France Légion d'honneur Ordre de la Libération (11 October 1943) Médaille militaire Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with six palms (273 downed aircraft) Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures with two palms (1953) Soviet Union Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner (19 February 1945) Order of Alexandre Nevski (5 June 1945) Order of the Patriotic War Order of the Red Star Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Russian cemetery Monuments and tombs of squadron pilots and unknown French soldiers are in the French Square () of Moscow's Vvedenskoye Cemetery. The remains of six other squadron members were repatriated to France in 1953. In popular culture The 1960 Franco-Russian