Beautiful restoration.
- Thread starter Spook48
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Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Only in static museum settings is the swastika allowed in Germany, so there are in fact a number of static aircraft in museums in Germany that have the swastika on the tail. However, it is not allowed on any flying aircraft in Germany.
The missing swastika aside, the actual inaccurate thing about the external paint work is that the prop spinner should be red, as per originally, and not black/white. When it was first painted it was correct with the red spinner, but the owner decided he wanted it to be black/white instead. Internally, to be accurate, the instrument panel should be the same grey as the cockpit, not black. Still, it is considered to be perhaps the finest, and with the most original material, of the three Bf 109E's that have been restored to flight thus-far - it being WkNr.1983, and the other two being WkNr.1342 and WkNr.3579, all having originated from the workshop of Craig Charleston in the UK (with the wings and paintwork for WkNr.1983 having been done by Hartmair Leichtbau in Germany).
The missing swastika aside, the actual inaccurate thing about the external paint work is that the prop spinner should be red, as per originally, and not black/white. When it was first painted it was correct with the red spinner, but the owner decided he wanted it to be black/white instead. Internally, to be accurate, the instrument panel should be the same grey as the cockpit, not black. Still, it is considered to be perhaps the finest, and with the most original material, of the three Bf 109E's that have been restored to flight thus-far - it being WkNr.1983, and the other two being WkNr.1342 and WkNr.3579, all having originated from the workshop of Craig Charleston in the UK (with the wings and paintwork for WkNr.1983 having been done by Hartmair Leichtbau in Germany).