Bf 109 in Austria!!!

Interesting Dave

I take it the G-14 fuselage was sold without an id ?

Thunderbolt

No idea, but I am sure Wagner had data plates in his collection, and since it was a new build fuselage, it had no history to compromise. Lets hope whoever has it now doesn’t try to ‘obscure’ its origins further down the track.
Quite hard to do in this day and age though I guess :p

Dave

G-14

Interesting Dave

I take it the G-14 fuselage was sold without an id ?

Thunderbolt

It’s a nice looking restoration but a bit of a pity that history wasn’t done justice… Tail, camo, spinner, bumps/cowling, canopy… I guess it’s all got to do with available funds but why were the fuselage and wings seperated? Such a shame :confused:

Thanks for showing though. It’s good to have another restored 109 in Europe.

The G-14 fuselage was sold to a private buyer. The K-4 fuselage never existed, Wagner was going to use the G-14 fuselage to do the K-4 ( which he had parts for). He kept changing his mind about which version he would finally finish……. in the end it was none.

Dave

Wagner

Hi Dave

What happened to that fuselage then ?
Was it used for the K-4 rebuild ?

Thanks

Thunderbolt

The G-14 fuselage is not the Austrian machine, only the wings are from it. Wagner is ‘out’ of the 109 rebuilding scene.

Dave

Bf109G-14AS W.Nr 784993

Howdy

See Warbirds Worldwide for the full story and pics of W.Nr 784993
issue 28 pg 46,47,56,57 AND 58

“Wagner’s Messerschmitts”

Pics show the restored fuselage on its U/C

Wagner spent well over 15 yrs restoring this aircraft, and must have sold it to the current owner.

Anyone know of the status of Wagner’s other Bf109K-4 Project ?

Thunderbolt

Amazing rebuild, well done. And it seems like a Thunderbolt fin is hanging on the wall in the background.

Austria, 12 points from The Netherlands:D

Cheers

Cees

Nice shots:-)and I also had to refresh my German a bit.:D

Brill Pukkaa thanks for sharing!

TT

Thanks for all the information guys, and thank you Herbert for providing the link to such an interesting website. It’s somewhat disappointoing that Maxis’ burial was not properly recorded, but I suppose there were other priorities at the time.

Regarding the swastica Austrian authorithies didn´t give the permission for it yet.
Herbert

Here you find more information about the incident:
http://flugzeugabstuerze-saarland.de/html/saarlouis.html
Go to 1945 Oberfelsberg.

On 1 January 1945, during operation “Bodenplatte”, the German Luftwaffe launched a surprising blow against Allied ground targets. Fighter Group JG 53 had orders to attack the airport at Frescaty near Metz. Before reaching the target NCO Herbert Maxis (born 1920) from Friedrichshütte in Upper Silesia of Group IV got in trouble and emergency landed near Oberfelsberg. He has been MIA since then.

Responsible for this crash was American soldier Flenory Griggs (photo above) of 455th AAA AW (M) Bn., ‘A’ Battery which was stationed at Düren to protect American field artillery. He hit Maxis’ Messerschmitt plane with machine gun fire and forced him down only 200 yards from his position. Hints given by members of this American unit indicate that Maxis was shot when he wanted to leave his plane by approaching artillery men who mistakenly believed he was going to pull a pistol though he actually just wanted to press his hand against a body wound.

Herbert

Ant Google

Herbert Maxis

Or

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:BdJm29xM42MJ:www.455th.ukpc.net/tomfeise/455th/maxis.htm+maxis+bf109&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=5

There are some contempory pictures around of the aircraft and at least 1 recovery picture of the wings here

http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2731

Absolutely stunning, what an achievement! The attention to detail is breathtaking- is the machine in any kind of working order, eg ground runnable?
Interesting to see the flare pistol mounted in the cockpit wall, was this a common feature? Never seen it before in pictures or diagrams etc.
Does anyone happen to have anymore info on the circumstances surrounding Maxis’ death? You usually only hear of cases like this with Allied airmen, especially on the Western Front.
As an aside, is it illegal to have swastikas on museum aircraft in Austria? I know it’s legal on non-airworthy aircraft in Germany.

Very, very nice 🙂

The wings and the middle part of the fuselage came from Maxi´s Bf 109 G-14/AS belonging to JG 53, that was recovered 1987. The back part of the fuselage came from a Bf 109 G-6 originally produced in Wiener Neustadt.
Regards,
Herbert

Elliott

Wings are from the G-14 that Raymond Wagner was building ( from which the identity is taken). I initially thought it had the fuselage he built as well, but that isn’t the case, so Steiner put that together himself.

Dave

That’s beautiful to look at Herbert.

Did he start from scratch or was it built from a wreck?