First flight June 16th 1969 as G-AXHJ. June 1969 N12217 International Jetstream Corporation. May 1977 N12217 Apollo Airways, April 1979 Zia Airlines. February 1980 N12217 Air New Mexico for five months. October 1981 Interstate Airlines, August 1983 Pacific Coast Airlines until end of 1985. April 1988 OY-CRR Newair Airservice. December 1995 wfu at Esbjerg. A surprising visit at the old apron at Fornebu. Scanned from negative film

First flight at Long Beach July 7th 1976 and delivered to SAS July 29th 1976 as OY-KGR "Holger Viking". Repainted to these new SAS colours in 1983/84, and OY-KGR became the only DC-9 to be repainted again in April 1999. January 1st 2002 wfu and stored at Arlanda, moved to Woensdrecht and then to Roswell in 2003 and later broken up. MD-81 LN-RLE is seen at an unusual parking in background. Scanned from a negative

Push-back of THY TC-JCK, and in background is one PAn Am Express ATR-42, one Busy Bee Fokker 50 and a WF Dash 7. Crane in foreground is part of the building of the new International Terminal, which was opened at this date, but not finished with moving the nessecary equipments.

First flight at Renton December 8th 1981, and delivered new as YU-ASAKL to JAT December 30th 1981. May 1984 YU-AKL Air Afrique (leased). March 1987 back to JAT. June 1991 YU-AKL Air Malta (leased). May 1992 TS-JEB Tunisair (leased). May 1996 YU-AKL JAT (returned).. 2001 YU-AKL Savannah Airlines (leased). 2002 YU-AKL JAT. August 2002 stored at Beograd, lagter broken up there.

First flight at Renton February 12th 1979, and delivered new to Alitalia as I-DIRL February 27th 1979, named "Città di Viterbo". November 1983 I-DIRL sold to Atasco. January 1984 TC-JCK Turkish Airlines, named ERCIYES". March 1996 TC-IYB Top Air, until stored at Istanbul and by 1999 fuselage coffee shop Ketal. Scanned from negative film

This NF-5B was retired and sold to Turkey as 4020 on 4 April 1991

K-4002 was delivered to the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu, Royal Netherlands Air Force) as the very first NF-5 for the KLu. The ceremony took place on 7 October 1969. The dual seater went into storage at Woensdrecht on 24 May 1988. The aircraft was sold to Venezuala as 1721 and delivered as such on 16 September 1992.

On 1 July 1988, 313sq said goodbye to its NF-5A/B Freedom Fighter era. At that time, the Netherlands soccer team won the European Championship. The final 313sq NF-5A received a coloured tail, commemorative to the championship . Originally, it showed "the word "AANVALLE!" (attack!, the Dutch cry out of the fans during the soccer game of the national team) on the tail, but this was erased after the aircraft arrived at Woensdrecht for storage.

Ex D-CORO, Delivered to Brazil in 1973. later to N176GA, US registration cancelled in 2007

After the NF-5s had been withdrawn from use a number were stored at Woensdrecht.

After retirement some NF-5s received a VUD badge. VUD used to be a popular early retirement scheme at the time. A/c was delivered to Venezuela not long after this pic was taken.