Adler's Warbirds

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I have been sorting through my computers and hard drives and finding all my pictures I have taken from all the Warbirds I have seen throughout the world. I figured I could post some of them here as well. This thread will be a work in progress as it will take quite some time and probably take a few months to finish this thread.

I will also try and break them down by country and type. Of course that will only work for so long as well, as I will obviously be seeing more aircraft over time.

I will start with Germany simply because well the Luftwaffe aircraft are the ones that interest me the most.

I will also try and include a short history of each aircraft if it is known.

 

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[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Arado Ar 234B-2 Blitz
Werk Nummer: 140312

Current Location: National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington DC, USA

Werk Nummer 140312, was one of nine Ar 234s surrendered to British forces at Sola airfield near Stavanger, Norway. It is the sole surviving example of an Ar 234. The aircraft was originally assigned to 9./KG 76 during the final weeks of the war.

 

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Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1
Werk Nummer: 790

Current Location: Deutsches Museum, Munich Germany

This is the earliest surviving Bf 109 to have seen combat. It served with 2./JG88 (Condor Legion) in 1937, and eventually transferred to the Spanish AF in 1939.

 

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Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6R3
Werk Nummer: 160756

Current Location: National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC, USA

This aircraft was flown by defector René Darbois. Darbois was a native of German-annexed Lorraine who claimed he was forced to fly in the Luftwaffe. On July 25, 1944 he took off on his first combat mission and proceeded directly to the airfield at Caserta, Italy. He landed and walked into the custody of the U. S. Army Air Forces 72nd Liaison Squadron. The number falls within the range of airframes manufactured at Messerschmitt's Regensburg plant in summer or fall of 1943.

 

[fubar57]

A great start

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3
Werk Nummer: 4101

Current Location: RAF Museum Hendon, London, England

This Bf 109E-3 was completed by Erla Maschinenwerk in Leipzig in September 1940, and was assigned to 2./JG51. On 27 November 1940 the squadron undertook several fighter sweeps over Kent, losing six Bf109s in the process, including `4101'. It was flown that day from Peuplingues by 21-year-old Leutnant Wolfgang Teumer. He was shot down by Flt Lt George P Christie DFC flying a Spitfire of No.66 Squadron based at Biggin Hill, Kent.

 

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Messerschmitt Bf 109G
Werk Nummer: N/A

Current Location: Sinsheim Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Germany

This aircraft was originally a HA-1112-M1L Buchon S/N: 228, and was used in the movie Battle of Britain. It has been rebuilt to a Bf 109G with DB 605 engine. The Left side of the cowling is cut away to show the DB engine.

 

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Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2/Trop
Werk Nummer: 10639

Current Location: RAF Museum Hendon, London, England

Built at Leipzig by Erla Maschinenwerk GmbH in September of 1942, probably at its Mockau plant. Construction started as a Bf109F-3, but converted to Bf109G-2/Trop standard during construction, and was accepted by Luftwaffe on 13 October 1942 and assigned to III./JG77 on 21 October 1942. On 02 November 1942 it was flown from El Harun to Bir El Abd. There it was assigned to 8./JG77 and flown by Heinz Lüdemann. Lüdemann flew the aircraft from Bir el Abd to Quotifaiya on an operational sortie, where he attacked RAF Boston Bombers escorted by USAAF P-40 Warhawks. During the attack he was injured, but managed to get the aircraft home. The aircraft was then ferried to Tobruk for repair, and was then assigned to an unknown pilot. German records indicate this aircraft lost on 11 November 1942 when the base Gambut Main was captured by the allies.

 

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Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2
Werk Nummer: N/A

Current Location: Messerschmitt Stiftung, Manching, Germany

Aircraft was originally a HA-1112-M1L Buchon S/N: 139, and was used in the movie Battle of Britain. It was later converted to a Bf 109G-2 with DB-605 engine.

 

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Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6
Werk Nummer: N/A

Current Location: National World War II Museum, New Orleans, USA

This particular aircraft was built using parts and pieces from various 109s, including several that were found in Russia.

 

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Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4
Werk Nummer: 730301

Current Location: RAF Museum Hendon, London, England

This aircraft was built sometime in 1944 based off of its werk nummer. This Bf 110G-4 was assigned to 1.NJG3 and is fitted with a FuG220b Liechtenstein SN-2 radar and built as a night fighter. In May 1945 it was surrendered to the allies at Grove airfield, Denmark (now known as Karup). It served in the defense of Denmark and Northern Germany.

 

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Messerschmitt Bf 110D
Werk Nummer: 3869

Current Location: Imperial War Museum, London, England

These are pieces from the wreckage of Rudolf Hess' aircraft which he flew to England and crashed on 10 May 1941.

 

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Messerschmitt Me 163B-1a
Werk Nummer: 191301

Current Location: National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington DC, USA

Me 163 B-1a, Werk Nummer 191301 was one of five Me 163s brought to the United States after the war, it arrived at Freeman Field, Indiana, during the summer of 1945. There it received the foreign equipment code FE-500. On April 12, 1946, it was flown aboard a cargo aircraft to the U.S. Army Air Forces facility at Muroc dry lake in California for flight testing. Testing began there on May 3, 1946 in the presence of Dr. Alexander Lippisch, and involved towing the unfueled Komet behind a B-29 to an altitude of 9,000 to 10,500 m (30,000 to 35,000 ft) before it was released for a glide back to earth under the control of test pilot Major Gus Lundquist. Powered tests were planned, but not carried out after delamination of the aircraft's wooden wings was discovered. It was then stored at Norton AFB, California until 1954, when it was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution.

 

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Messerschmitt Me 163B
Werk Nummer: 120370

Current Location: Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

This Me 163 was assigned to JG 400.

 

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Messerschmitt Me 262A-2a
Werk Nummer: 112372

Current Location: RAF Museum Hendon, London, England

Built in Leipheim in March of 1945. Construction start on 18 December 1944. In March 1945 it was delivered to Jagdgeschwader (JG) 7 'Nowotny' as one of 89 new Me 262s delivered to JG7. On May 8 1945 it flew from Zatec, Czechoslovakia to Fassberg, northern Germany to surrender to British forces. On the way it strafed Russian armoured columns and shot down a Russian P39 Airacobra. Pilot for this flight was Uffz. Engler of JG3.

 

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Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a/R7
Werk Nummer: 500071

Current Location: Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

This aircraft, flown by Hans Guido Mutke while a pilot of 9./JG 7, was confiscated by Swiss authorities on 25 April 1945 after Mutke made an emergency landing in Switzerland due to lack of fuel (80 liters were remaining, 35 liters were usually burnt in one minute).

 

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Messerschmitt Me 262A-1c
Werk Nummer: 501244

Current Location: Messerschmitt Stiftung, Manching, Germany

This is reproduction given the Werk Nummer 501244.

 

[fubar57]

Love the shots and histories.

 

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Bücker Bü 133C Jungmeister
Werk Nummer: 28

Current Location: Germany

Year Built: 1940