Messerschmitt Bf 110 restoration progressing in Norway

Forty years after it was salvaged from a crash site near Båtsfjord in Finnmark county, northern Norway, the long-term restoration of Messerschmitt Bf 110 F-2 Werknummer 5096 is progressing at the Flyhistorisk Museum at Stavanger-Sola. This Bf 110 has a fascinating history. Initially, the heavy fighter served with 13.(Z)/JG 5, being coded LN+DR. On 10 February 1943 the aircraft was damaged by Soviet ground fire, the pilot making a belly landing at Kemijärvi in Finland. With damage being estimated at