Originally delivered to the Netherlands air force as K-3070 in 1971 - hence the Turkish serial.

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

The elegant lines of the F-5.

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.