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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:741568 USN
    Construction Number:R.1261
    Compressed ID:Northrop F-5E sn 741568 USN cn R.12...
    Latest Owner or Location:Corpus Christi

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-5E.

    Circa 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 74-1568.

    By September 1983

    Transferred to 527th TFTAS, 10th TRW, RAF Alconbury.
    Operated with markings: 68

    23 May 1987


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: F-5E Tiger II of 527th Aggressor Squadron at RAF Alconbury on display at the 1987 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 741568.

    By April 1992

    Transferred to VFA-127.
    Operated with markings: 46, VFA-127, NAVY, NJ

    April 1992


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro Air Show, CA

    By 4 October 1999

    Transferred to VFC-13.
    Operated with markings: 15, ES, VFC-13, NAVY, 15, AF

    4 October 1999


    Photographer: Fred Krause
    Notes: Photographed at NAS Fallon, NV.

    Based at USN NAS Fallon, Fallon, NV.
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    By January 2008

    Assigned to Corpus Christi for storage.
    May be dumped here.

    Withdrawn from use.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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