Wingspan: 7.50"
Length: 12.50"
Code: AM07028

The F-5E/F Tiger II, built and designed by Northrop in the 1960's, is a part of a family of widely used light supersonic fighter aircraft. The F-5 started life as a privately funded light fighter program by Northrop in the 1950s. The first generation F-5A Freedom Fighter entered service in the 1960s. The improved second-generation F-5E Tiger II was also primarily used by American Cold War allies and, in limited quantities, served in US military aviation as a training and aggressor aircraft; Tiger II production amounted to 1,400 of all versions.

The F-5E eventually received the official name Tiger II. The F-5E experienced numerous upgrades in its service life, with the most significant one being adopting a new planar array radar, Emerson AN/APQ-159 with a range of 20 nmi to replace the original AN/APQ-153. Similar radar upgrades were also proposed for F-5F, with the derivative of AN/APQ-159, the AN/APQ-167, to replace the AN/APQ-157, but was never carried out. Northrop built 792 F-5Es, 140 F-5Fs and 12 RF-5Es. The F-5 proved to be a successful combat aircraft for US allies, but had only limited combat service with the US Air Force in Vietnam.

The F-5E saw service with the US Air Force from 1975 until 1990, serving in the 64th Aggressor Squadron and 65th Aggressor Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, and with the 527th Aggressor Squadron at Alconbury RAF Base in the UK and the 26th Aggressor Squadron at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. During the war with Iraq, IRIAF F-5s were heavily involved, flying air-to-air and air-to-ground sorties. There are reports that an F-5E, piloted by Major Yadollah Javadpour, managed to shoot down a MiG-25 on 6 August 1983.

This hand-carved F-5E Tiger II Snipers mahogany wood display model plane is done by highly experienced craftsmen, a work of art hand-painted with great concern for details and accuracy.