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)
Photo: Thiago Pereira Machado
Venezuelan Northrop F-5A
3274 at Anapolis AB (Brazil) on 27-07-06
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 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
Miscellaneous: Center Advances Airmanship - General Equipment Inc: 26-06-22 / Malaysia:
09-05-22 / 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 03-07-22 / 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 /
2020
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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correction/additional
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you
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