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I'm sorry to intervene, but there are a lot of old myths and wrong facts that (in complete good faith) have surfaced in this thread about the Bf 109G-10.

Concerning the listings of Werke Nummern published several years ago by Prien in his otherwise excellent book, very little was known at the time about the G-10s produced by Erla, so at the time it was thought that their external look was due to the use of DB 605AS engines instead of "D" ones...

Documents and material emerged since then have allowed to ascertain that all the G-10 built by Erla (apart from a mere 50) were equipped with the DB 605D engine and that the "look" was in reality due to Erla's experimental redesign of the nose section.

Concerning instead what apparently reported in Lynn Ritger's book, here too we have some old "myths" as the one seeing the G-10 as an "Arlequin" version, spread over.

Excellent researchers like Charles Bavaroise and the one posting here as "Rasmussen" have studied late Bf 109 production for decades and have discovered material and documents proving beyond doubts that - for instance - the fuselages used by Erla in the G-10 production were of new build, as evidenced by the serials attached to them (not Werke Nummern, but production serials). Personally I have been able to see one of such listings.

That story about old Bf 109s "recycled" as G-10s has been debunked long since, but the fact that it still goes to print and circulates (as well as the non-existing "G-10/AS" versions still lingering around), certainly gives food for thought...