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    Airframe Family: Messerschmitt Bf-109 / HA-1109/1110/1112 / S-99/199
    Latest Model:Bf-109G-14/AS Gustav
    Last Military Serial:White 13 Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:784993
    Compressed ID:Messerschmitt Bf-109G-14/AS sn Whit...
    Latest Owner or Location:Letectva Muzeum, Kosice, Kosice

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a Bf-109G-14/AS.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n White 13.

    1944

    Transferred to IV. Gruppe/Jagdgeschwader 53.
    Based on the Western Front.

    1 January 1945

    Crashed.
    Shoot down by fire from the US 455th AAA Battalion. Crash landed near Oberfelsberg, Germany. Pilot Unteroffizier Herbert Maxis survived the crash but while clearing out from the cockpit he was shoot dead by an American soldier.

    Circa 1 January 1945


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Wreck of Bf 109 G-14/AS c/n 784993 shoot down by an A Battery of the US 455th AAA (AW) Battalion.

    1987

    Recovered.
    Central fuselage section, wings and some small parts were excavated by Raymond Wagner from Saarland, Germany.

    Circa 1987

    Restoration started.
    Central fuselage section and some other parts from this wreckage (c/n 784993) together with elements from other original Bf 109 airframes as well as few newly built components were used to start up reconstruction project.

    2012

    To Slovak Technical Museum.

    October 2012


    Photographer: SITA / STM Kosice
    Notes: Transport of the unfinished reconstructed airframe to STM Kosice.

    January 2017


    Photographer: Muzeum Letectva a Dopravy Kosice (fb page)
    Notes: Reconstruction in progress.

    Circa May 2017

    Restoration completed.

    Markings Applied: White 13, 784993
    Original markings of c/n 784993.

    May 2017

    Placed on display with Letectva Muzeum, Kosice, Kosice.
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    26 September 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Museum of Aviation in Kosice, Slovakia.


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Internet Sources
    Messerschmitt Bf-109 Hangar
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall

    Individual Contributors
    Marcin Rogowski
    Vladek Vacha

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