sweasel.com

Cool project! I hope that they find all the bits and pieces they need.

Almost all aviation buffs just need to see Bf 109 (or just 109). They won’t need to see the name “Messerschmitt”. It’s like you don’t need to say “Boeing” when referring to the 747.

What amused me is that they were able to get NOS (new old stock) engine components from Germany. So, what were they holding stock for – round three?

Just tossing in a couple of ideas, but y’all might want to have the museum rebuilding the 109e contact our Air Force Museum:

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
1100 Spaatz Street
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433

(937) 255-3286

They have a lot of parts in the back room and may have a spare bf-109e pilots seat laying about. And museums tend to trade in order to complete things for exhibits. You might also want to have them contact the Smithsonian Museum, but I suspect the bureaucracy may be more than they can bear.

Good luck to them.

Subotai Bahadur

Well, the Jerrys built almost 35,000 BF 109’s “the most produced fighter aircraft in history….Some 13,942 109s were produced in 1944 alone.”

However the Germans ran out of pilots …long before they ran out of planes so I imagine there were plenty of extra parts left over and not much market for them after the war so they just got stuffed in some old bunker somewhere.

However this does seem like a good place to remind the Germans of that wise old saying I first heard in a little bar in Atlanta:

“ Don’t start none, won’t be none.“

They can, or could, get parts from the Spanish. HA-1112.
I know I’m the ONLY one here old enough to remember the movie “The Battle of Britain” in the 1960’s 😁

https://www.daveswarbirds.com/bob/109s.htm

I liked this movie. Christopher Plummer sings about how he loves Austria and Michael Caine uses his Hawker Hurricane to wipe out the Zulu infantry attacking Rorke’s Drift.

I’m clearly not remembering any boobies in the Battle of Britain movie, and back then I’d have remembered if there were any ( there WERE in ZULU, because Tommy Abbott’s dad exclaimed “Thomas! Them women don’t have bras on!” To which Tom replied, ” yeah, I know dad!”).

Did you know the Israelis flew BF-109s against Egyptian flown Spitfires in the 1948 Arab Israeli War? Yugoslavia built those ones.

But I imagine these guys are trying to use “original” German made parts.

Durnedyankee: Yeah, I’ve read about the ’48 war. But those planes were built in Czechia, where a lot of German war materiel was made. There was a fair amount of heavy industry there, and it was taken over by the Germans in early 1939.

The Israeli planes were built with Jumo engines because the original Daimler-Benz engines weren’t available. Israeli pilots hated it; the engine substitution screwed heavily with its flight characteristics.

As to this plane: if they get it flying with the original engine, I’ll be awed.

Whups, Czechoslovakia!

Czechoslovakia. Just when I got to the point where I could spell it properly with consistency, they split it up. Sheesh.