This Top Aces F-16A Block 5 Viper N854TA 78-0322 is an ex-IDFAF Viper Bort 129 is seen here arriving back at Volk Field ANGB during Northern Lightning 2023!! This jet has a 1/2 MiG Kill Mission Marks and was applied during Operation Opera. This was the fourth of the eight F-16s to drop its bombs in Operation Opera. Callsigns was Izmel 4 and piloted by Hagai Katz.

Northern Lightning consisted of the following units:
5x F-16C Block 42 Vipers 112th FS Stingers OH ANG
6x T-38A's of the 7th FTS Langley AFB as red air
5x F-16C Block 50 Vipers 112th FS Stingers Toledo OH ANG
9x F-35B Lightning IIs VMFA-211 Wake Island Avengers
14x F-35A Lightning IIs 85th FS Gorillas Eglin AFB
6x Mirage F1s ATAC red air
4x F-16A Vipers from Top Aces (3 of 4 are Syrian MiG killers)
3x F-117s Nighthawks from Tonopah working out of Duluth, MN

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