Yadollah Javadpour

He began his service as a pilot in the IIAF and was a member of the elite flight demonstration team, the Golden Crown.^[5]

Javadpour's notoriety came while flying the Northrop F-5. He claimed 5 air victories, which makes him an ace, but only two have been reliably confirmed by western sources. His greatest fame came on August 6, 1983 when he claimed (later to be reliably confirmed) to have shot down an Iraqi MiG-25. This was a significant achievement for an F-5 pilot as the MiG-25 is a much bigger and faster aircraft with a substantial altitude advantage. His other confirmed kill was an Su-20 on 17 October 1980.

Air Combat Information Group (ACIG) gives credit of the following confirmed kills to Javadpour:

• Iranian aerial victories during the Iran-Iraq war