Armament of the Bf 109E consisted of two wing cannon and two light machine guns on top of the nose. A nose cannon firing through the hollow propeller shaft was rarely fitted in practice.

This 109 was built in Leipzig in 1942 and ferried to North Africa, entered service with 8/JG77 and was danaged in combat a few days later. It was flown to Gambut Main for repair but captured essentially intact when this airfield was overrun. She was extensively testes and evaluated before being shipped to the UK where the serial RN228 was allocated. Following a crash at Duxford in 97 it was decided that she should be rebuilt to static display standard and ariived at the RAF Museum in March 02.

This WWII combat veteran was built at Wiener Neustadt in 1944 and saw service on the Eastern Front with II/JG52. She was captured intact by the Americans near Munich and transported back to the US for evaluation. Ed Maloney, the Planes of Fame founder, saved her from the scrapman and she is now on display at their museum at Valle.

This Bf-109 is painted as a JG300 machine tasked with defending Germany against the Eighth Air Force daylight bombing raids. Now on display at the National Museum of the USAF.

Built by Erla in Leipzig in 1943, this Bf 109G of 5./JG 3, based at Schiphol, was shot down by 487 Fighter Sqn P-47Ds over Holland on 4 December 1943. Jan van Huuksloot is on a mission to reconstruct the dug-up pieces, using newly-built structural parts and bits of other Bf 109s.

Salvaged in Russia, this is a real Bf 109 although it borrows a wing of a Hispano Buchon. Painted as the mount of the I./JG 3 commander and ace, Klaus Quaet-Faslem.

This aircraft was delivered to the Luftwaffe on 28th November, 1939. It force landed on a frozen lake on the Kola Peninsular and sank when the ice thawed. It was recovered in 1993 and restored in Hungary before being transferred to the Technical Museum in Berlin.

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

Displayed at the 1971 RAF Chivenor Open Day. Later to the RAF Museum Hendon.

Conversion trainer version of the Bf109 built by Avia in Czechoslovakia shortly after ww2.

This silver Messerschmitt was built in Spain as a Hispano HA 1109-K1L, and its Spanish identity is given. It was restored as a Bf 109G-2 at the MBB apprentice workshop in Augsburg.

Ex III-JG77. Captured and flown by 1426 Flight as RN228 during late WW2. Stored at RAF Henlow and later flown as G-USTV. Now at Hendon.

Tito's air force operated some captured Bf 109Gs.

By late 1940 Yugoslavia had purchased about 80 Me-109 E-3s, which ironically were used during April 1941 in the defence of Belgrade when German forces invaded. After the war around 120 G models were obtained from Bulgaria, incorporating many local modifications. Three were even converted to two-seaters. All were retired by 1952