Hi old eagle,

I wondered if this was DG200 which crash landed at Manston, which later
after being repaired, flew without a canopy until they got one off another
gift or kill. I did hear that this did fly from RR Hucknall without a lid. The shot
does look like the lid is missing, unless it folded back without the stay.
Sorry for refering to its coming to Earth as a crash-landing, I must stop saying that, due to up-setting people on other forums, it made a, at all times
under-control, controlled-landing. There.

Regards JJ.

Regards JJ.

The small disc with unit badge on the fin identifies it as DG200. It was captured 27th Nov 1940 and transported to Rolls Royce Hucknall on 14th December where it was repaired using parts from several other Me 109s. It made its first flight at Hucknall on 25th Feb 1941. Used for engine performance investigation it made 32 flights totalling 23 hours 25 minutes. It was handed to de Havilland for tests of variable pitch propeller installation. After that to Boscombe Down. On 1st June 1942 it was sent to 1426 Flight. The ‘lid’ had been removed because test pilot Harvey Heyworth was too tall for the cockpit and his head stuck out.