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[GeeRam]

What's the story with the BF 109, i.e. how did it end up in Australia and how/where was it captured? Thanks

Its not a real 109, its a mock up replica, and a poor one at that.

However, the genuine Bf109G that is on display in the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra is very special, in that its the only surviving example that is still wearing its original wartime German applied paint and markings.

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[browningautorifle]

Its not a real 109, its a mock up replica, and a poor one at that.

When I first looked at it, I wondered. The wing has such a strange cant to it I wondered how it could actually fly...

[GeeRam]

When I first looked at it, I wondered. The wing has such a strange cant to it I wondered how it could actually fly...

The world gained another airworthy Bf109 only last month, when Mid West Aero in Danville, IL finished the long restoration to airworthy of Bf109G-6 Wr.Nr 410077 which had been recovered largely intact, from a freshwater lake in far north of Russia way back in 1990, after crash landing on its frozen surface in early 1944 after being damaged by flak, when being operated by Stab IV/JG54.
It made its first post restoration flight in the legendary hands of Steve Hinton a few weeks ago.