Air Jordan 5 Retro "Metallic Silver"
Retail: $215 | Style Code: HQ7978-103
Release Date: April 25th, 2026
Air Jordan 5 Retro OG "White Metallic"
The fighter jet lands clean. The Air Jordan 5 Retro OG "White Metallic" returns for the third time in its history and the most historically accurate iteration yet — featuring Nike Air branding at the heel for the first time on this colorway, aligning it more closely with the silhouette's original 1990 roots in a detail that separates this 2026 release from everything that came before it. The White Metallic has always been one of the AJ5's most wearable and most beloved colorways. In OG form, it becomes something more — the shoe as Tinker Hatfield first imagined it, finally delivered the way it deserved to be.
The white leather upper features translucent mesh on the panels and tongue, a reflective silver tongue, and silver flames on the white midsole — the fighter plane-inspired design language that Hatfield built the AJ5 around wearing the clean palette that makes all of it readable at once. The updated 23 font on the sides references the 1990 look, and the Nike Air heel branding replaces the Jumpman emblem that the 2000 original and 2015 retro both carried — a single change that carries the weight of returning a shoe to its true origin. The reflective tongue and icy translucent outsole remain the silhouette's most defining finishing details, the blue-tinted rubber underfoot completing the build in the color the AJ5 has always worn best.
The Air Jordan 5 Retro OG "White Metallic" releases April 25, 2026 in full-family sizing — the parent and the child in matching pairs, the collector and the daily wearer in the same shoe, everyone in the colorway that proves the AJ5 was always cleanest when it wore nothing it did not need. The fighter jet design. The OG branding. Thirty-six years of history, finally told correctly.