IRAN’S
GOLDEN
CROWN
With the help of rare photographs, BABAK TAGHVAEE chronicles the history of
the Imperial Iranian Air Force’s Golden Crown formation aerobatic display team.Rarely seen outside Iran, the team’s thriling displays with F-84G Thunderjets, and
later F-86Fs and Northrop F-5s, became an effective symbol of Iranian air power
the imperial iranian air
force formation aerobatic
display team, 1958–79