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Messerschmitt
BF109e |
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Airfix #A82012 (1/48)
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This model depicts the BF109 e-3 flown by Lt Dedompierre
Staffelkapitan 3/JG27
(Squadron Leader Staff 3/Fighter Group 27)
Swiss Air Force 1940-49
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BF109e Information
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Role: | Fighter |
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| Country: | Germany | ||
| Manufacturer: | Messerschmitt AG | ||
| Production: | early 1941 | ||
| No Produced: | 1276* / 33984** |
Switzerland took delivery of the first of its 115 Bf 109s in 1938 when ten Bf 109Ds were delivered. After this, 80 109 E-3s were purchased which arrived from April 1939 until just before the German invasion of France in summer 1940. During the war, a further four 109s (two Fs and two Gs) were acquired by the Swiss Air Force through internment. The 109Es were supplemented by eight aircraft licence manufactured from spare parts by Doflug at Altenrhein, delivered in 1944.
In April 1944, 12 further G-6s were acquired in exchange for the destruction of a highly secret Messerschmitt Bf 110G night fighter which made an emergency landing in Switzerland.
The 109Es continued in service until December 1949.
| Specifications: | |
| crew: | 1 |
| length: | 9.05m |
| wingspan: | 9.92m |
| height: | 2.6m |
| weight (empty): | 2590kg |
| weight (loaded): | 3120kg |
| Performance: | |
| Powerplant: | Daimler-Benz DB 601E, liquid-cooled inverted V12, ? kW (1,332hp) |
| Max Speed: | 628km/h |
| Range: | 710km (with drop tank) |
| Service Ceiling: | 11,000m |
| Armament: | |
| Guns: | 2 x MG 17, 7.9mm machine guns |
| 1 x MG 151, 20mm cannon firing through propeller spinner | |