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Re: Bf 109 V25
No answer David, but I feel it is unlikely the WNr was 5605.
I think that number stems from someone reading the 1993 book where Prien/Rodeike lists three F-protypes V21, V23-V24 as WNr 5602, 5603 and 5604, thus making the V25 5605.
I have no idea why Prien/Rodeike believed these Versuchs aircraft were taken from Messerschmitt's first F-production batch. Mind you they never mention the V25 and somebody else made that conclusion.
Radinger/Schick in 1997 in their final appendix states what they feel to be the correct WNr for all the early versions , unfortunately quoting the same WNr for both the V25 and V26, the latter probably WNr 1931.
So based on these two books and that it is highly unlikely that the production batch beginning with 5601 had already begun in 1939 I would say WNr 1930 is much more believable
Cheers
Stig
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