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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter / T-38 Talon / Canadair CF-116
    Latest Model:F-5E Tiger II
    Last Military Serial:160792 USN
    Construction Number:R.1039
    Last Civil Registration:N4845M
    Compressed ID:Northrop F-5E sn 160792 USN cn R.10...
    Latest Owner or Location:Prop and Jet Air Museum, Hemet Ryan Airport, Hemet, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-5E.

    Circa 1973

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 73-0858.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160792.

    To unknown owner with c/r N4845M.

    To The Prop and Jet Museum, Hemet Ryan Airport, Hemet, CA.
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    Markings Applied: AF/02

    5 September 1986


    Photographer: Peter B Lewis
    Notes: At McClellan AFB

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: Mike Woodley
    Notes: VFA-127 Desert Bogeys Red 23 at Lemoore NAS 1990

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: Mike Woodley
    Notes: VFA-127 Desert Bogeys Red 23 at Lemoore NAS 1990

    27 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2013 photo taken at Hemet - Ryan Field, California

    To Prop and Jet Air Museum, Hemet Ryan Airport, Hemet, CA.
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    21 May 2021


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Hemet Ryan Airport.

    21 May 2021


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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