Why the difference? Are they manufactured by different companies (a ‘customer’ aircraft?), different engines, or in different countries?
Virtualpilots – 109 myths and facts
“It’s not Me 109, it is Bf 109, you dork!
Both are correct for the Messerschmitt 109 fighter. Both the factory and the Luftwaffe used both designations throughout the life of the 109. Both Bf 109 and Me 109 appear in “official” documents from a variety of ‘official sources, from the production facilities themselves to internal RLM docs. It is wrong to say that ‘Me 109’ is incorrect or that Bf was terminated during construction of the 108-109-series fighter. These alternative designations didn’t stop at the Gustav; many Augsburg documents from the last months of the war still used the Bf prefix. For simplicity, this article usually refers to the plane as Me 109.”
Rule of Thumb: Aircraft designed before 11th July 1938 by Bayerische Flugzeugwerke / Messerchmitt AG are Bf, the others are Me.
Martti
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