The base for this aircraft is a German Bf109, which identity is shown here. This Bf-109 was built in Erla, and shot down on 21 November 1944. The frame was recovered in November 1997 and after an extensive restoration, including the original DB 605A motor, is now airworthy with the Hangar 10 collection at Heringsdorf.

Built in 1942 in Germany by Erla Maschinenwerk. Crash-landed near Murmansk in August 1942 after aerial combat. After war crudely restored for display in a Soviet museum. In the mid-1990s acquired by Aero Vintage Ltd., a British restoration organization, and refinished in its original colours, leaving original bullet holes. Acquired through exchange in 1999 for one of the Museum's two Messerschmitt Me 163B Komet rocket fighters.

Built as a Bf-109G-6 in 1942, this aircraft is recorded as serving the Bulgarian AF as 610824 then the Yugoslav AF as 9964 before remanufacture as a Bf-109G-14/U4 in Vienna in 1944. Operating as 'Black 2' with II./JG52 in 1945, it was captured at Neubiberg in May and shipped to the US as FE-124 then T2-124. Moved to Freeman Filed, IN in 1946, it was used for displays. In the late 1960s restoration began in California with the wings of a Czech Avia S-199. Transferred to the UK then Evergreen at McMinnville, OR, in 1990 it was registered as N109MS and converted to Bf-109G-10 spec. Loaned in 1999

This Bf109E of unspecified sub-type was brought down during the Battle of Britain. It was shipped to Australia to assist in air crew recruitment and raise war bonds. 0750, which was built by Erla, was transported to many places in Victoria and Tasmania, suffering vandalism and damage along the way. The aircraft was scrapped after the war. This photo was issued by the RAAF as a postcard and found its way into innumerable Australian households. Photo from: State Library of Victoria

Switzerland purchased 80 Bf-109s in 1938, they soldiered on to defend the Swiss neutrality throughout WW2 alongside the D-3801 which was, ironically, one of the main opponents of the 109 during the Battle of France (in its French version MS 406)!

This Messerschmitt 109 ditched after an engine fire North West of Egersund during a post maintenance test flight on 11 October 1943. After 45 years on the seabed, a large part of the airframe was brought ashore by the shrimp trawler Luma on the night of December 16, 1988. During the year 1989 a long restauration proces was started by the Norsk Fly Historisk Museum which was completed in 2020.

Photo by Tuomo T. Mäkinen

Little is known about this Bf109 captured by the Australians. It was used by 3 Squadron as a hack, hence the serial HK849. This is not an official RAF or RAAF serial. There is a photo of the fuselage of this aircraft and another Bf109 fuselage on a large stack of scrap metal in Egypt They were trophies not worth saving as the war and 3 Squadron moved across the Mediterranean to Italy, Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Later on display at Central Finland Aviation Museum / Air Force Museum in Jyväskylä / Tikkakoski (EFJY). Photo by: Pekka Kyytinen / Finnish Heritage Agency

This aircraft was shot down and belly landed in Sussex on 30th September, 1940. It is preserved in the Imperial War Museum Duxford collection.

This Bf109 force-landed behind British lines. At the time, British forces were focused on the northern end of Normandy frontline in the vicinity of Caen. Pilot was Unteroffizier Jakob Vogel. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

This aircraft is preserved at the RAF Museum. The museum's records show air-to-air photos were taken on August 16, 1942 and that is what has been used here. The RAF acquired the aircraft when it made a wheels-up landing at Manston on November 27, 1940, after being shot up in an encounter with a Spitfire. 4101 was repaired using parts from other crashed Bf109s. Flew again February 21, 1941 The canopy was removed to allow a tall Rolls-Royce pilot to fly it and was then mislaid. It was flown without a canopy after that. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Landed in error at Manston along with a second Bf019G while on a Wilde Sau operation, The pilot of the pictured aircraft was Leutnant Horst Prenzel, Staffelkapitan of 3./301 Photo from: Imperial War Museums