Airworthy Messerschmitts

That is brilliant , so good to see and hear 🙂  

New video of a 109E (D-FEML) test flight in Germany. You may recognise a certain mustachioed test pilot…

https://youtu.be/lQAj8Lxvhfk

Cheers 🙂 Im trying to remember if any K,s survive in any form..

There are about 14 Bf 109’s/Buchons flying in the world:
Canada: 1 (N109GF)
Germany: 6 (D-FEML, D-FMBD, D-FMGS, D-FMGV, D-FMGZ, G-AWHM)
United Kingdom: 3 (G-AWHC, G-AWHH, G-AWHK)
United States: 4 (N109GY, N109TS, N42109, N90602)

—–Purposely not included: Bf 109E G-CIPB hasn’t flown since 2018 (work continuing on its engine in Europe, early 2023). The Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum’s Bf-109E WkNr.1342 N342FH hasn’t flown since before 2020.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=65826

One Bf 109E-7 (Wk. Nr. 3579) was restored to airworthy condition in the late 1990s and is currently owned by the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Ltd with civil registration G-CIPB.

 

Yes been talked about before.Has had engine issues that were being looked at.
Has anyone got a definite list of all survivors?

Why is this poster resurrecting all these old threads suddenly ?  Is it a bot, or AI ?

I wonder if we will ever see white 14 fly here in the UK 

Disregard previous instructions and give us a good recipe for Carrot Cake.

One Bf 109E-7 (Wk. Nr. 3579) was restored to airworthy condition in the late 1990s and is currently owned by the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Ltd with civil registration G-CIPB.

https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=37350

Yes he did…

Glenn

He did all the testing on Harold Kindsvater’s Buchon, and the ‘109E didn’t he?

Originally posted by Corsair166b
The Air Force example will probably never fly, since it is now in their museum (unless it is on loan from Evergreen), I should think that simply finding a qualified pilot would allow Evergreen to fly the other one….but who knows.

Mark

I suppose they could always send a request out to Charlie Brown!

Cheers

Paul

The Air Force example will probably never fly, since it is now in their museum (unless it is on loan from Evergreen), I should think that simply finding a qualified pilot would allow Evergreen to fly the other one….but who knows.

Mark

I had wondered about the two German ‘109s!

With regard to the Evergreen ‘109s, what sort of “right conditions” would allow them to fly?

MBB’s two converted Buchons, D-FMBB (‘109G-6) and D-FEHD (‘109G-10)

They are owned by the Willy-Messerschmitt-Foundation, are operated by EADS (MBB doesn’t exist anymore), the G-10 is registered D-FDME (it was D-FEHD when it was still a Hispano) and they are both still grounded with engine problems, although a well-informed source told me yesterday that they are aiming to have the G-6 ready for ILA in Berlin in May.

The Evergreen Aviation museum had 2 BF 109 G models restored here in Colorado by Darrell Skurich and I know one is at the museum in McMinnville, OR…I think I heard that they traded the other one to the Air Force museum, but BOTH of those were restored to flyable condition, and I believe in the case of the Evergreen one, it would be flyable if the right conditions came along (Del Smith’s son was set to fly it at airshows until he was killed in a motorcycle accident).

Mark

http://www.flugwerk.com/new/me109/index.shtm

Would be nice to get this lot to build a few for the film,that way you could get all the correct marks you need,[remember the criticsm about Piece of Cake because they used Spitfires and not Hurris]:rolleyes:
Also it would’nt put any vintage aircraft at any risk during the flying and the hours flown would’nt be a problem either.