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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:00852 SVNAF
    Construction Number:R.1033
    Compressed ID:Northrop F-5E sn 00852 SVNAF cn R.1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship)

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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 73-0852.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South Vietnam Air Force with s/n 00852.

    1975

    Captured by North Vietnam forces.

    1977

    To Instytut Techniczny Wojsk Lotniczych (Air Force Technical Institute), Warsaw, Poland.
    Sent here for evaluation.

    February 1983

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at PZL Warszawa-Okecie.

    1992

    Placed on display with Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship).
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    30 August 2000


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    25 August 2013


    Photographer: Graham Speirs
    Notes: At Krakow Aviation Museum, Poland

    11 March 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow, Poland.
    This dossier is waiting for review by an editor.This airframe dossier was started by a contributor.
    An preliminary review of the submitted data is pending.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2014 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Samoloty w Lotnictwie Polskim
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Marcin Rogowski
    Graham Speirs
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