Enroute from Jackpot AG Range (Terschelling) to its homebase Twenthe (EHTW). Mission as part of the Tactical Operational Conversion Course (TOCC - post-UPT) for my pilot training class. Capt. Willem Nieuwland in the frontseat and my classmate 1Lt. Jack Mol in the tub.

To Turkey as 4016 in 1991. Preserved at Pinarbasi from 2017.

Wearing the 54 Sqn (RAF) badge under cockpit.

To Turkey as 4024 in 1991. Crashed near Eskişehir AB in 1996.

This is former RNLAF K-4029, seen here in Turkish AF markings with serial 4029 on the tail, just prior to departure from Eindhoven to Turkey.

Rare photo of K-4006 while operating with the Test Group. It only flew test missions between mid October and early November 1975. In 1993, the aircraft was delivered to Venezuela.

This unmarked aircraft was operated by 314 Sqn. It exploded in mid-air near Leopoldsburg in Belgium on 22 June 1976. The crash location was close to the Pampa live firing range in nearby Helchteren, but as far as I know it is not known what exactly the cause of the accident was.

To Turkey January 1991.

Rare photo of NF-5B K-4021 operated by 314sqn. This winter paint scheme was applied during an exercise at Bodø and was removed almost immediately after return to the Netherlands.

This NF-5B just entered the Vliegend Uit Dienst (VUD, Fly Away from Service), also reported as Vervroegd Uit Dienst (Early Retirement from Service), section at Gilze Rijen. It already received the round red cirkel in which the VUD badge should be painted. K-4010 was kept in flyable storage after its operational career with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Royal Netherlands Air Force) before it was sold and flown over to Venezuela as 6292 on 27 January 1993. Because of the fyable storage, the NF-5A/Bs with the VUD markings were sometimes seen outside at the cross servicing platform of Gilze Rijen.

This NF-5B just entered the Vliegend Uit Dienst (VUD, Fly Away from Service), also reported as Vervroegd Uit Dienst (Early Retirement from Service), section at Gilze Rijen. It still carried the unit markings of its last operational owner, 315sq. K-4030 was kept in flyable storage after its operational career with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Royal Netherlands Air Force) before it was sold and flown over to Venezuela as 6372 on 2 March 1993. Because of the fyable storage, the NF-5A/Bs with the VUD markings were sometimes seen outside at the cross servicing platform of Gilze Rijen.

To Turkey as 4021 in 1990. Used by the Turkish Stars display team. Still active in 2022.

Assigned to 313 sqn

No badge, one of the final departures of the NF-5 from Twente air base after nineteen years of Freedom Fighter operations. The dual seat aircraft was sold to Turkey as 4026 and departed for southern Europe on 31 May 1990