A former VNAF F-5E, now on display in a museum Krakow, Poland. A-37B 68-7916 and F-5E 73-0852 (c/n R.1033) arrived to Poland in late 1977.
Polish engineers were to help Vietnamese making manuals and documentation
for those two types. Aircraft delivered were airworthy, some pilots even
wanted to fly, but it was only allowed to taxi. Both were then totally
dismantled and analysed. There were plans to replace some of it's equipment
with soviet equivalents, but this idea was soon abandoned due to
technological problems - F-5 was quite advanced aircraft at that time.
There was not much to change, but Polish engineers have learnt a lot, and
used this knowledge later constructing new aircraft.
After trials both A-37 and F-5 were left in hangar of Military Technical
Institute, slowly become just incomplete airframes, and during 90s made
their way to Krakow museum, where they are present until now. (photo: ?)