Soviet Bf109B

[Pilot]

Greetings all,

did this plane ever get Soviet color and markings?



Cheers

[oquaig]

According to Lennart Andersson "A Bf 109B-1 (s/n 6-15)of the Legion Condor was captured when it landed behind the republican lines in December 1937. After being tested by a French technical commission in February 1938 it was sent to Odessa and then to Moscow for evaluation at the NII VVS, where it was flown by P M Stefanovsky, S P Suprun and others." The Soviets purchased 5 Bf 109E-3s for evaluation then ended up in a museum after the war. What ever markings the Soviets gave their evaluation types bought from other countries may be how this one was painted also.

[Pilot]

Thank you for info It would be interesting to see sample from museum, maybe it is still somewhere around.

[Peter D Evans]

Hi Pilot...

There are 5 pages of photos and details on the Bf109B and Bf109E's the Soviets tested in "German Aircraft in the Soviet Union and Russia" by Y.Gordon, S.Komissarov and D.Komissarov [Midland, 2008]. There is also a single colour side profile of a Bf109E captioned as tested by NII VVS Chkalovskya AB in Oct'40 but none of the b/w photos of 8 photos included of a Bf109E-3 clearly show these markings.

Cheers
Peter D Evans
LEMB Administrator

[Pilot]

Thank you Peter. I think that there is also Russian book in the similar subject but I did not know (or maybe I have forget) about the Midlands book. It is new and maybe possible to find online.

Cheers

[Revi16]

More pics,
http://www.moskittech.ru/eng/myze/Bf.../Bf-109B-1.htm

[Pilot]

Interesting A type stick...