Wing coding Bf110 and in general

[Fernando Estanislau]

My thoughts are exactly as Evgeny's. If you knew the W.Nr. (serial number) of this plane, maybe you could locate the proper Stammkenzeichen letters and verify if they match...

Another possibility is the aircraft coming from another pilot, maybe a previous M8+KC, for example (?)

[carlmu]

I am trying to convince those who say this plane had the code M8+TC on the fuselage instead of what I believe should read M8+KC. To my knowledge, the only "proof" for the code M8+TC comes from the Vermisst list and is probably as wrong as the crash site in the same list. According to the Vermisst list the plane crashed near Kirkenes. The plane war on its way to Kirkenes, but never arrived there, and in fact crashed 2000 km farther south.
The plane is imaged in Pori on 08.08.1941 with a K under the left wing near to the tip. The Finns filled up the plane with 87 octane fuel and oil, which is shown in the fuel log from Pori and the plane is there logged as M8+KC.
By the way, the plane's Werk No was 3863.
On differenet pictures from Pori and also from Sweden in summer 1941, all the fuselage letters except letter no 3 can be read.
So from the arguments above, which fuselage code is the most probable?

[Fernando Estanislau]

It seems that the image of the third letter on fuselage exists:

http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/fodalen.html

It would be nice to analyze a better sample of the photography.