The Northrop F-5 Enthusiast Page

Please note that this page is written by enthusiasts without connection to any authority. This material is being kept for historical purposes only; is being updated as additional information is available. It may contain broken links and errors (as few as possible)


Brazilian Northrop F-5E 4858 at Florianopolis on 16-08-05 with special colours, 58 years
                                           1°Esquadrao/14° Grupo de Aviaçao at Florianopolis on 16-08-05. Photo: Juliano Damasio - AIRFLN

The Northrop Freedom Fighters and Tigers are becoming an extinguishig specy. It is therefore that this site wishes to provide an in-depth view of the Northrop F-5 in its various versions operated by all Air Forces
and civilian organisations, mainly from the historian point of view. Thousands of additional photos of the aircraft are available in the Internet!

Very few technical details are included. Information comes from official and, mainly, non-official sources.
Local/USA serials/construction numbers of aircrafts operated by the various Air Forces and their Units are shown.
See the "Page Information" for further explanation of details, use of all Air Forces is also included.

Additional information of each unit operation are given, inclusive pictures and Squadron badges; information, where available, is added as soon as available. Please visit the site regurarely.
Data written in blue are subject to confirmation. Date of latest Air Forces updates (see below) and information details  (in each page) are written in green.

Limited photo credit is given to the respective authors (only where known, as original medium was unreadable after virus attack). Please advice the site master if you are the author of an unknown one and this will
promptly be inserted or advice if it must be deleted. Size and quality are not always as desired due to the rarety of the subject.
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Production of the site started early (2012). In the meantime improvements in layout/information have been added, while several additions have come to light and inserted in the latest updates (also in respective
pages); most recent first specified by year.

Northrop N-156 Family program 03-12-202- Production - Northrop Freedom Fighter 11-02-22 / Development/Production  -  Northrop Tiger 12-11-21 / Aircrafts produced - tested by USAF 12-11-21 /

2022
US Marines: 06-05-2022 /  US Navy: units  05-05-22 / Indonesia: 02-5-22 / Brazil: units 27-04-22 - general information 17-04-22 / special colours 30-11-20 / Iran: - Imperial 29-11-20 / Morocco: 07-05-22 /
Civilian operators: 06-04-22 / Saudi Arabia: General information 02-03-22 / Iran Islamic Republic: 27-02-22 / Korea: Operations/excercises/ preserved 21-01-21 / Jordan: 26-02-22 / Tunisia: 18-02-22 /
Mexico: 17-02-22 / Chile: 13-02-22 / Canada: general information 16-02-22 / Switzerland: general information 10-02-22 / Ethiopia: 16-03-22 / Brazil: Operations 28-01-22 /
US Navy: general information 04-04-22

2021
Philippines: 26-12-21 / Canada: units 23-12-21 / Thailand: general information 21-12-21 - / Libya: 13-12-21 / Singapore: general information 06-12-21 - units/operations 06-12-21 /
Taiwan/China: general information 18-11-21 - units 06-01-21 / Netherlands: unit/operations 01-11-21 /Turkey: general information 01-11-21 / Greece: 19-09-21 / Venezuela general information 21-10-21 /
Austria: 23-08-21 /Saudi Arabia: -  units/operations 15-04-21 / Korea: general information 24-01-21 units - 24-01-21 / Thailand: operations/excercises 25-02-21 / Netherlands: aerobatic teams 04-02-21 -
units/operations 18-01-21 /  Switzerland: general information 08-01-21 /

2020
Malaysia: 15-12-20 / Brazil: upgrades 09-12-20 / Singapore: units 22-10-20 / Iran: - units 10-02-20 - upgrades 10-02-20 / USAF: - Vietnam operations 22-11-20 / dissimilar training  22-11-20 /
Spain: general information 19-11-20 / Soviet Union: 02-10-20 / Netherlands: general information 15-11-20 / Pakistan : 20-07-20 / Switzerland: Operations 08-07-20 / special colours 08-07-20 /
Norway: general information 18-05-20 /

2019
Honduras: 09-10-19 / Kenya: 27-05-19 / Botswana: 04-10-19 / Switzerland: units 24-04-19 / Canada: operations/colours - 05-04-19 / Spain: operations 20-04-19 /

2018
Singapore: general information 06-12-18 Spain: units 30-07-18 / Thailand: units 24-05-18 - / Bahrain: 29-03-18 /

2017
Vietnam South: general information 27-07-17 / Yemen general information 11-07-17 / Vietnam North 18-04-17 / Jordan: 04-04-17 /

2016
USAF: general information 21-08-16 - foreign pilots training 21-08-16 /

2013
Turkey: units 18-09-13 - operations/excercises - 18-09-13 / Vietnam South: order of Battle-Units 18-09-13 / Thailand: - colours 11-04-13

2012
Sudan: 22-11-12 / Egypt: 22-11-12
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