While that may seem possible, read the following:
http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/Mybook/res...-research.html
"The problem here is that no French material on the NN describes their combat employment using any aircraft save for Yak fighters (the Yak-7, then Yak-1b, Yak-9, Yak-9T, and Yak-3). "
Not much evidence to support it,
Don