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The Northrop F-5 is a family of supersonic light fighter aircraft initially designed as a privately funded project in the late 1950s by Northrop Corporation.There are two main models: the original F-5A and F-5B Freedom Fighter variants, and the extensively updated F-5E and F-5F Tiger II variants.
The squadron was re-activated in 1969 as a Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter training squadron for Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots for transition training. After the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War , it continued performed training of pilots from friendly nations who purchased the Northrop F-5E Tiger II as part of the United ...
Final loss: F-4D 66-8747 (432d TRW) on 29 June 1973. F-5 Freedom Fighter—9 total First loss: 1965, final loss: 1967; F-100 Super Sabre—243 total, 198 in combat First loss: 1964, final loss: 1971; F-102 Delta Dagger—14 total, 7 in combat First loss: 1964, final loss: 1967. 4 of the combat losses were parked aircraft.
The final predecessor was the 10th Fighter Squadron, Commando, which performed combat testing of the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter from April 1966 until the planes were transferred to the Viet Nam Air Force in April 1967. These three units were consolidated into a single unit in September 1985.
Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter; Ryan Firebee (wreckage) Shenyang J-5; Plaque states that this aircraft scored 9 victories, one of which was US Air Force F-4C 63-7614, shot down on 12 May 1967 by Ngo Duc Mai. Shenyang J-6; TL-1 [2] A Vietnamese designed and built training and liaison aircraft. Zlin Z-26
It commemorates the Ho Chi Minh Campaign that led to the fall of South Vietnam. Items on display include a 57 mm AZP S-60 antiaircraft gun, F-5A Freedom Fighter, M-46 130mm cannon, M113 armoured personnel carrier, SA-2 Guideline SAM, T-54 tank, ZIL-157 truck; Museum of Ho Chi Minh City.
A United States pilot who disappeared while conducting a spy mission during the Vietnam War has finally been accounted for, military officials said Tuesday. U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W ...
VFC-111 assumed its 'Sun Downer' insignia, callsign, and traditions from the Fighter Squadron One Eleven Sun Downers, a famous U.S. Navy fighter squadron with extensive combat history as a carrier-based F-8 Crusader and F-4 Phantom II squadron during the Vietnam War and as an F-4 and F-14 Tomcat squadron during the latter part of the Cold War ...