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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:J-3087 SwiAF
    Construction Number:L.1087
    Compressed ID:Northrop F-5E sn J-3087 SwiAF cn L....
    Latest Owner or Location:Patrouille Suisse, Kommando Pilotenschule Luftwaffe 85, Emmen

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-5E.

    Circa 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 81-0846.
    S/N allocated for production purposes, airframe did not serve in the USAF.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-3087.

    By August 1989

    Markings Applied: 087, J-3087

    25 August 1989


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Dubendorf Air Show

    9 June 1995


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at LeBourget.

    By July 1995

    Transferred to Patrouille Suisse, Kommando Pilotenschule Luftwaffe 85, Emmen.

    22 July 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RIAT RAF Fairford

    Markings Applied: J-3087

    15 July 2006


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At RIAT Fairford.

    6 September 2014


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Payerne LSMP

    6 September 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With 55-Years-sticker at Airpower 2019, Zeltweg, Austria
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Air Forces Directory (Mach III Publishing) by Ian Carroll
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
    Ken Videan
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