Hobby Master 1/72 F5F Tiger II USAF William

HOB HA3377 Hobby Master 1/72 Northrop F-5F Tiger II 73-0891, 58th TTW, USAF, Williams AFB, 1979

The Northrop F-5 tactical fighter was designed as an extremely maneuverable, supersonic fighter with a high rate of reliability at a low operating cost. The F-5 first flew on July 30, 1959 with the first customer delivery in 1964. The last of more than 2,600 F-5’s was produced in 1989 and about two-thirds of these are still in service with 26 countries more than 4 decades later. The F-5 was manufactured by Northrop Grumman and under license in Canada, Taiwan, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland.