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[Maciej Góralczyk]

Originally Posted by Buckeye30

Andy. These are the recorded numbers for 109s, looks like 45 was a B, 46 was a C.....


http://equinoxe.dk/SCWaircraft/bf109.html



A few years ago Michael Payne (sadly no longer with us) wrote that 6-42 to 6-56 were B-2s to make up losses in 1./2. Staffeln in Dec. 1937 but that was some time ago and more research done since.
Regards
Nick

The above cited site is outdated.
Both 6-45 and 6-46 were Bf 109 Bs. I've never seen Bf 109 B-2 term used in any official German documents (although interestingly, there exist at least one document with the Bf 109 B-1 term used).

The full breakdown:
Bf 109 V6 - crashed upon the first take-off attempt and written off
6-1 - Bf 109 V4
6-2 - Bf 109 V3
6-3 to 6-16 - Bf 109 As (note that the surviving examples were upgraded to the B standard in the course of service)
6-17 to 6-58 - Bf 109 Bs
6-59 to 6-86 + 6-95 to 6-98 - likely all Bf 109 D-1s, there is no hard evidence on the Bf 109 C-1 variant being delivered to Spain
6-87 to 6-94 (all in this batch are E-3s) + 6-99 to 6-131 - Bf 109 Es, mostly E-3s but including at least 7 E-1s.