Northrop’s F-20 Tigershark was designed as the ideal American export fighter: affordable, easy to sustain, and potent enough ...

Key Points and Summary - The Northrop F-20 Tigershark was a privately-funded, high-performance fighter jet developed in the early 1980s as an export successor to the popular F-5. -The F-20 was a Mach ...

The F-20 Tigershark was canceled before reaching full-scale production, and it has since faded into obscurity. But the sleek fighter will seem familiar to most aviation enthusiasts, because the F-20 ...

Although it was capable, the F-20 was built to be a second-tier fighter—and no one wanted a second-tier fighter when first-tier ones were available. The Northrop F-20 Tigershark is remembered today as ...