Régiment de Chasse 2/30 Normandie-Niemen is a French Air and Space Force fighter regiment which flies the Dassault Rafale C from BA 118 Mont-de-Marsan Air Base. During a dormant period in 2009, the sq
The regiment in Moscow in 2010
Two Mirage F1s in 1986; the plane nearest the camera belonged to the squadron.
The squadron's Yak-3 fighters in Reims in 1945
A Yak 3 (01) at Paris–Le Bourget Airport's Musée de l'air et de l'espace; its spinner is the French tricolour.
Yakovlev Yak-3
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The Yakovlev Yak-3 is a single-engine, single-seat World War II Soviet fighter. Robust and easy to maintain, it was much liked by both pilots and ground crew. One of the smallest and lightest combat f
Régiment de Chasse 2/30 Normandie-Niemen
…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…
Yak-3 in the Vadim Zadorozhny Technical Museum, Krasnogorsk, Russia
Yak-3, featured on 2011 postage stamp of Russia, Weapons of Victory stamp series
Yakovlev Yak-3 (replica), with opposite rotation propeller.
Yakovlev Yak-3UPW produced in 2002 with Pratt & Whitney R-1830 radial engine