Hobby Master 1/72 HA3325 Northrop F-5E Tiger II 730855, VMFT-401 "Snipers", June 2006

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.

This Northrop F-5E Tiger II was provided to the South Vietnam Air Force and was returned to the USN as 730855 C/N R-1036. In April 1989 the aircraft became the property of VMFT-401 Snipers Adversary Squadron at Yuma, Arizona as Adversary 01. Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 (VMFT-401 Snipers) was activated in March 1986 at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona and is the USMC's only adversary squadron. In 2006 F-5E 730855 was sent to VFC-13 Fighting Saints and in 2012 retired to AMARC.