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Messerschmitt Bf 109



During WWII, the Bf 109 was the backbone of the Luftwaffe fighter force, serving on all fronts and also in the air forces of its European allies.  By war's end, Germany had built more than 30,000 Bf 109s. Production  continued on after the war in Czechoslovakia until 1949 and in Spain until 1958. It remains to this day the most produced fighter in history. Below is a list with survivors - there are more examples known, but most of these are rebuilds from recovered crash components (several of those below are as well). Not included are the Spanish-built HA-1112 "Buchon" and the Czech Avia S-199.
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Bf 109 E ("Emil")
  • WNr0790 - Bf 109E-1 flew during the Spanish Civil War in the Legion Condor . Then to  Spanish air force, since 1960 in the Deutsches Museum, Munich (see photos)
  • WNr4034 - Bf 109E-1 forced landing at Lower Hardres, Kent in 1940 (8./JG 53, Schwarze 6). Send to India as a gift in 1941, returned in 2005 to Rare Aero Ltd., Jersey.
  • WNr1289 - Bf 109E-3 landing whilst operational in I./JG26 "Rote 2" near  Udimore, Sussex on November 28, 1940. Shipped to South Africa for war loan tours and remained there, now part of the South African National Museum of Military History, Saxonwold, Johannesburg
  • WNr1342 - Bf 109E-3 crashed on July 29, 1940 on the beach of Cap Blanc Nez (France) whilst operational in 6./JG 51 “Gelbe 5”. Remains of this plane were recovered in 1988 and were the base of a rebuilt to flying condition, now in the Flying Heritage Collection, Paine Field WA.
  • WNr2242 - Bf 109E-3a delivered to the Swiss air force as J-355 in April 1940, on display at the Swiss Air Force Museum, Dubendorf as J-355. 
  • WNr4101 - Bf 109E-3 forced landing at RAF Manston on November 27, 1940 (2./JG 51, Schwarze 12), repaired and since 1978 on display at the RAF Museum, Hendon (see photo)
  • WNr1190 - Bf 109E-4:  during the Battle of Britain on September 30, 1940, after combat  with Hurricanes  (4./JG26 "Weissen 4"), made a wheels up near East Dean, Sussex, shipped to the US en Canada, restored to its original Luftwaffe scheme and on display at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford (see photos)
  • WNr1407 - Bf 109E-4 of 1./JG77 "Schwarzen 2",  ditched in Lake Nasykkajarvet, Finland (Kola peninsula) on July 17, 1941. Completely recovered from the water in 1993. Restored and now on display at the Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin as “Rote 5”.
  • WNr3523 - Bf 109E-7 ditched on lake near Pestamo (Finland) whilst operational in 5./JG5  "Rote 6" on April 4, 1942. Recovered in 2002, now on display at the Air Museum, Chino pending restoration to  flying condition
  • WNr3579 - Bf 109E-7 shot down on August 2, 1942 by Soviet Hurricanes whilst operational in 4./JG5 (Weisse 7), crash landing at Pya Ozero, Soviet Union. Hull recovered in 1991, brought to the US for restoration to flying condition ("Weisse 14"), returned to the UK for further repair in 2015.

Bf 109 F ("Friedrich")
  • WNr10132 - Bf 109F-4/Trop flew in 2./JG5, forced landing after combat at  Motovski, near Murmansk, on August 12, 1942. To the UK for restoration, now on display at Rockliffe Museum, Canada, in Luftwaffe scheme.
  • WNr10144 - Bf 109F-4 flew in 6./JG5 as Gelbe 7. Crashed near Veanga, Murmansk on September 5, 1942. Recovered in 1994, restored to flying condition in the US at Air Assets International, Lafayette CO
  • WNr10256 - Bf 109F-4/Trop flew in II./JG5, crashed near Murowskij, Russia on July 22, 1942. Recovered in 1994, restored to flying condition in the US at Air Assets International, Lafayette CO
Bf 109 G ("Gustav")
  • WNr10639 - Bf 109G-2/Trop at the RAF Museum Hendon. Built in 1942 at Leipzig by Erla Maschinenwerk GmbH. Construction started as a Bf109F-3, but converted to Bf109G-2/Trop. Allocated to III./JG 77 with hull code "Schwarze 6" ("Black 6"). Found abandoned by the British at Landing Ground 139 Gambut in 1942. After years of testing by the RAF, it was kept more or less in flying condition, until it was damaged on its last planned flight before transfer to the RAF Museum in a crash-landing following a display at Duxford’s’ Autumn Air Show in 1997. The pilot, was unhurt.
  • WNr13470 - Bf 109G-2/R1 flew in JG5, shot down over Kirkenes, major parts stored at the Norwegian Aviation Museum, Bodo.
  • WNr13605 - Bf 109G-2 crashed 21 June 1943, recovered in Russia, now registered in the UK at G-JIMP
  • WNr13916 G-6, recovered from crash site, now in Aircraft Restoration Group, Russia.
  • WNr14141 - Bf 109G-1/R2 Schwarze 6, ditched on March 24, 1943, recovered from the sea, pending restoration
  • Unknown Wnr. - Bf 109G-2 Luftfahrt Museum Hanover, Germany
  • Unknown WNr - Bf 109G-2 at the Museu Asas de Um Sonho,  Brazil. Ex Norway/Munich as ‘14256’
  • WNr15458  - Bf 109G-2 at Charleston Aviation, Essex.
  • WNr14649  - Bf 109G-2/R6 Recovered from Norway in May 2010 for the Norwegian Aviation Museum, Bodo.
  • WNr14798  - Bf 109G-2 collection David Price, USA
  • ​WNr19310  - Bf 109G-4 at Technik Museum, Speyer, flew once in JG52, recovered from the Black Sea
  • WNr15343  - Bf 109G-5 rebuild project bij Jan Van Huuksloot, the Netherlands
  • WNr3555-1089  - Bf 109G-6 Ex-Russia, probably in the UK
  • WNr14792  - Bf 109G-6 Aviation Museum, Belgrade
  • WNr160163  - Bf 109G-6 at the NASM Washington DC
  • WNr163824  - Bf 109G-6/U2 captured Eggebek airfield, Schleswig in May 1945, shipped in 1946 to Australia, since 1987 at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra with its original WW2 paint scheme.
  • WNr165227  - Bf 109G-6 at Utti Air Base, Finland
  • WNr166306  - Bf 109G-6 at the Polish Aviation Museum, Warsaw a lake recovery from 1999.
  • WNr167271 - Bf 109G-6 Tikkakoski Aviation Museum, Finland
  • WNr410077 - Bf 109 G-6 Mid-West Aero Restorations, Illinois for Dr Bruce Winters
  • WNr411968 - Bf 109 G-6 ‘Black 6’ at the Vadim Zadorozny Technical Museum, Moscow
  • WNr441059  - Bf 109G-6 Ex III./JG3. In fact a composite, recovered 2007, restored.
  • WNr610937- Bf 109G-10/U-4 Ex-Yugoslav Air Force, since 1990 at the Evergreen Air Museum, Oregon
  • WNr151591 - Bf 109G-10 collection Hans Dittes, Germany. Fuselage parts incorporated into Buchon wings/109G composite `Black 2'/D-FDME.
  • WNr610824  - Bf 109G-10, captured as Schwarze 2 of II./JG52 at Neubiberg, shipped to the US in 1945. Now on display at the USAF Museum, painted to represent an aircraft from Jagdgeschwader 300. 
  • WNr610937  - Bf 109G-10/U4 at the Evergreen Air Museum, Oregon
  • WNr611943  - Bf 109G-10/U4, captured at Neubiberg as Gelbe 13 (II./JG 52), shipped to the US, since 1974 at the Planes of Fame Museum, Grand Canyon, Arizona
  • WNr462707  - Bf 109G-14, flew in JG300 as Schwarze 2, crashed near Hannover, Hanger 10 Collection, Herigsdorf, Germany
  • WNr784993 - Bf 109G-14, in fact a composite with substantial remains of Weisse 13 (IV./JG52)at the Slovenske Technicke Muzeum, Kosice, Slovakia
  • WNr unknown - Bf 109G-14, in fact a composite, at the National World War II Museum, New Orleans, U.S.A as "Rote 3"
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