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    Airframe Family: Messerschmitt Bf-109 / HA-1109/1110/1112 / S-99/199
    Latest Model:Bf-109G-2 Gustav
    Construction Number:5975
    Compressed ID:Messerschmitt Bf-109G-2 cn 5975
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Pooler, Savannah, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a Bf-109E-7.
    Built by Wiener Neustadter Flugzeugwerke (WNF),(WNF) Vienna, Austria.40

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe.

    Transferred to 6./JG5.
    Operated with markings: 4 yellow

    10 May 1942

    Crashed.
    Crashed after combat Finland.

    1994

    Recovered.
    Substantial hulk recovered from a frozen lake in Russia.

    1994

    In the inventory of Warbird Recovery, Jefferson County Airport, Denver, CO.
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    From 1998 to 2001

    One of 5 imported from Russia with all stored at the Broomfield-Jefferson County airport.

    March 1998


    Photographer: Tom Roberts Collection
    Notes: Photographed at the Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum.

    May 2003

    To National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Pooler, Savannah, GA.
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    Restored as a Bf-109G-2.
    Rear fuselage from an E-7 while cockpit and centre section area is from an unknown G-2.

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: It is a replica 1:1 the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum
    Credits
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    Internet Sources
     Preserved Axis Aircraft by Mikael Olrog (originally) and Classic Wings
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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