in 1947. It was stationed in Saigon during the First Indochina War (1949–1951) before returning to Algeria. The regiment was split in two in 1953, and one of the two squadrons became the Escadron de Chasse 2/6 Normandie-Niémen. After the dissolution of the 6e Escadre de Chasse, the squadron was attached to the 30e Escadre de Chasse and became the Escadron de Chasse 2/30 Normandie-Niémen. It returned to Orange, Vaucluse on 13 March 1962. The squadron moved to Reims – Champagne Air Base (BA 112) in June 1966, remaining there for almost 30 years as part of the 30e Escadre de Chasse. On 18 September 1992, the squadron celebrated its 50th anniversary. The celebration included a visit by Sukhoi Su-27s from the Russian Knights aerobatics team and a delegation of military veterans from the former Soviet Union, organized by French Defense Minister Pierre Joxe and the commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force. On 13 October 1993, the squadron was renamed Escadron de Chasse 1/13 Normandie-Niémen. It later left Reims for Aerial Base 132 Colmar-Meyenheim () in Meyenheim, near Colmar in Alsace. In 1994, the squadron participated in Opération Turquoise in Rwanda and Opération Crécerelle in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 9 May 1995, the 50th anniversary of Victory Day, the 18th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment of the Russian Air Force was renamed Normandiya-Neman. Based in Galenki, Primorsky Krai, in the Russian Far East as part of the 11th Air Army, the regiment flies Sukhoi Su-25 ground-attack aircraft. On 1 July 1995, the squadron was renamed Escadron de Chasse 2/30 "Normandie-Niemen". Four years later, it participated in Operation Allied Force (). Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Vladimir Putin unveiled a monument by Russian sculptor Andrey Kovalchuk commemorating the squadron in Moscow's Lefortovo Park on 10 October 2007. The squadron was decommissioned on 3 July 2009, with the last takeoffs for Reims and Châteaudun in mid-July; after 17 July 2009, no aircraft flew out of Colmar–Meyenheim Air Base. Its regimental colors and some of its aircraft and pilots went to Mont-de-Marsan Air Base. Veterans of the squadron and a French contingent from the unit participated in the 9 May 2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade in Red Square. The first Dassault Rafale with the squadron colors took off from Mont-de-Marsan Air Base on 25 August 2011, reviving the SPA 91, SPA 93, Escadrille Spa.97 and Escadrille SPA 97 squadrons. From 31 August 2015 to 18