Show us your best Northrop F-5 pictures.....

dick loh vervallen · Post by **dick loh vervallen** » 05 Oct 2008, 12:19

Dick

Wijgert IJlst · Post by **Wijgert IJlst** » 05 Oct 2008, 12:49

Hans Rolink wrote:Wow, Chung Chens with Communist nosecodes!
From which base are those?

Hans.

Hi Hans,

Yes they have a small agressor fleet based at Taitung on the east coast of Taiwan.
Your F-5 pictures have been made at Taoyuan right? I can tell by the Eva MD.11 which taking off in the background.
The RF-5's are withdrawn from service some years ago, the base now is a reservebase with F-16s on TDY from time to time.
Taitung is actualy the only F-5 base left on Taiwan, so a large fleet can be be seen there.

Trueno · Post by **Trueno** » 05 Oct 2008, 13:13

Great guys, very nice topic and more and more to come

I still miss a few countries, and I know the Dutch spotters going everywhere in this world I would like to see some from Philippines, Mexico and Kenya

Dick, what is the significance of that patch on the Dutch NF-5B K-4008?

Cheers all,

Horror

dick loh vervallen · Post by **dick loh vervallen** » 05 Oct 2008, 13:20

Trueno,

The badge on the tail of the K-4008 was the fist badge of 313 sqn.

Kind regards,
Dick

K2G · Post by **K2G** » 05 Oct 2008, 14:10

I am not a photographer, actually I am a 100% "S5" !!
But sometime you are on places, it is hard NOT to take pictures. For an example at one of my visits in 2007 to super base Santa Lucia in Mexico.
So here some F-5 pictures, directly from my camara.

Hans

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » 05 Oct 2008, 14:41

Wijgert IJlst wrote:
Hans Rolink wrote:Wow, Chung Chens with Communist nosecodes!
From which base are those?

Hans.
Hi Hans,

Yes they have a small agressor fleet based at Taitung on the east coast of Taiwan.
Your F-5 pictures have been made at Taoyuan right? I can tell by the Eva MD.11 which taking off in the background.
The RF-5's are withdrawn from service some years ago, the base now is a reservebase with F-16s on TDY from time to time.
Taitung is actualy the only F-5 base left on Taiwan, so a large fleet can be be seen there.

The RF-5s are still active! They operate from Hualien (making Hualien the second F-5 base in the country).

Taoyuan is handed over to the Navy and currently housing the S-2T Trackers.

Refer to http://www.scramble.nl/tw.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (unlimited search options!)

Greetings,
Stefan

dick loh vervallen · Post by **dick loh vervallen** » 05 Oct 2008, 15:25

A couple oldies from my collection.

F-5B demonstrator in Canadian markings at Toronto in September 1968.

This Saudi paid Egypt Air Force F-5E 3503/50606 ended up in Yemen.

Ethiopian Air Force F-5E 425 photographed at Williams on 14 September 1977.

Hellenic Air Force RF-5A 97173.

Hellenic Air Force F-5B 89090 in July 1976.

Royal Jordanian Air Force F-5A 209/J on 25 August 1986.

Libyan Air Force F-5B 21278 at Wheelus in April 1970.

Royal Norwegian Air Force 332 skv F-5A 69211/AH-R at Husum in October 1970.

Philippine Air Force F-5B 10589 in November 1978.

South Vietnamese Air Force F-5E 00858 at U-Tapao on 29 April 1975.

Spanish Air Force SF-5B CE.9-001/211-1 at Moron in February 1976.

Hope you guys liked them,
Dick

dinovandoorn · Post by **dinovandoorn** » 05 Oct 2008, 21:43

hi dick,

That is what i call an collection whow !!!
do you mis any operator on F-5 hahaha

Nice to see these exotic F-5's

Cheers,
Dino

P.Terlouw · Post by **P.Terlouw** » 05 Oct 2008, 22:05

NF-5A demo at Maastricht Beek in 1983

Wijgert IJlst · Post by **Wijgert IJlst** » 05 Oct 2008, 22:05

Hi Stefan,

Stefan wrote: The RF-5s are still active! They operate from Hualien (making Hualien the second F-5 base in the country).

Taoyuan is handed over to the Navy and currently housing the S-2T Trackers.

Yeap, your correct about the Trackers on Taoyuan. Still living in 2006, keeping memories alive perhaps, on this one...

I'm not sure about the 4th TRS at Hualien. It was transfered in 2005 to Hualien from Taoyuan. During 2006 it only operated a hand full of RF-5's, besides that also the 12th TRS was operating out of Hualien with F-16's in the Recce role. If I'm not mistaking, then they might have taken over this role completely from the RF-5's. I'm not 100% sure that the RF-5 retired, but http://www.taiwanairpower.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; does not mention it active any more.

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » 05 Oct 2008, 23:59

Wijgert IJlst wrote:Hi Stefan,

Stefan wrote: The RF-5s are still active! They operate from Hualien (making Hualien the second F-5 base in the country).

Taoyuan is handed over to the Navy and currently housing the S-2T Trackers.
Yeap, your correct about the Trackers on Taoyuan. Still living in 2006, keeping memories alive perhaps, on this one...

I'm not sure about the 4th TRS at Hualien. It was transfered in 2005 to Hualien from Taoyuan. During 2006 it only operated a hand full of RF-5's, besides that also the 12th TRS was operating out of Hualien with F-16's in the Recce role. If I'm not mistaking, then they might have taken over this role completely from the RF-5's. I'm not 100% sure that the RF-5 retired, but http://www.taiwanairpower.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; does not mention it active any more.

They have always operated only a handfull (only 7 where converted to RF-5). In January of this year at least one was still active:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Taiwan-- ... 1322485/M/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

At least 3 others were still operating mid-2007. AFAIK they are still 'on charge'.

Greetings,
Stefan

Iwan Bogels · Post by **Iwan Bogels** » 06 Oct 2008, 02:32

Hi Hans & Dick,

Love your Mexican F-5's. These are pretty rare to se, even though they are still current. But Dick, George's collection is truely amazing !! It must be great just opening any of his boxes and seeing surprise after surprise. It makes you wonder how we can be happy with just F-16's and Tornado's....

Anyway, here's a cross posting from the Agressor topic with five F-5 shots taken at Yuma in March 2006.

Cheers,
Iwan

dutchphantom · Post by **dutchphantom** » 06 Oct 2008, 06:48

Stefan & Wijgert

12 TRG at Hualien operates a mix of F-16's, RF-5's and F-5F's (although the RF-5's still carry their old squadron markings). At the open house in June there were a RF-5E and a F-5F in the static and in July these 2 were still operational. I don't know if any other are still operational.

Wijgert IJlst · Post by **Wijgert IJlst** » 06 Oct 2008, 08:33

Okay, thanks for clearing this up.

AK01 · Post by **AK01** » 06 Oct 2008, 15:02

Picasa back in the air, so below some slidescans from me:

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Pieter