Carrying '01544', this aircraft is from the 527 Aggressor Squadron. This squadron simulated Soviet tactics and even the markings were based on those carried by Soviet aircraft.

Fighter trainer from Talavera la Real in the Extremadura.

USAF 68-9102, to Norwegian AF 102 taken on charge Jun-1969, struck off charge Jul-1982, to Norsk Luftfartsmuseum in Bodø. It carries the 336 Sqn swallow badge

Patrouille Suisse at ILA

Captain Meister's Tiger landing at RIAT 2012

With an impressive backdrop, here is the third prototype of Northrop's N-156F design for a simple and affordable Military Assistance Program export fighter, first flying on 31.7.63. A total of 799 were built, followed by 1166 of the more capable F-5E Tiger II. Now displayed in phoney camouflage as 64-13332 to represent a 'Shoksi Tiger' of the 4503rd TFS, which combat tested the type in Vietnam in the mid-60s

Here at the first ever Air Tattoo displaying a five-digit serial (derived from US allocation 66-9241), from 1972 this two-seater F-5 operated with the shortened Norwegian identity 241. From 332 Sqn at Rygge, later serving 336 and 338 Sqns before being displayed on a pole at Trondheim

One of a pair of F-5s mounted along with an F-104 at a site atop a hill overlooking Izmir airport

Prototype F-5 (N-156F). When first displayed at the Museum of Flight had a USAF serial but otherwise in Northrop markings.

The Spanish version of the F-5, the SF-5, had the official local designation A.9 for an attack aircraft, with the photo reconnaissance SRF-5A becoming the AR.9.