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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-3085 SwiAF
    Construction Number:L.1085/1182
    Compressed ID:Northrop F-5E sn J-3085 SwiAF cn L....
    Latest Owner or Location:Patrouille Suisse, Emmen

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-5E.

    Circa 1981

    Assigned s/n 81-0844 with the United States Air Force for administrative purposes. It did not serve with this service.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Swiss Air Force with s/n J-3085.

    By July 1995

    Transferred to Patrouille Suisse, Emmen.

    22 July 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: F-5E Tiger II of the Patrouille Suisse display team on display at the 1995 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    23 May 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Swiss Air Force F-5E Tiger II on deployment to RAF Waddington, Lincoilnshire in May 1997.

    28 June 2003


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Airpower 03, Zeltweg, Austria

    27 August 2014


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Air 14 Payerne LSMP

    13 July 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: arriving at RAF Fairford RIAT

    25 August 2018


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: During Radom Air Show at the 42nd BLSz in Radom, Poland.

    6 September 2019


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: J-3085, together with J-3084 and J-3090 performing at Airpower 2019, Zeltweg, Austria
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