List of DB 605A engine construction numbers?

[Frans A]

Matti Salonen.
Fantastic lists. One question. Are the Bf109's of your list all a 100% loss?
Frans A

[Matti Salonen]

No, they are not. Most of the dates are when the aircraft was received from Germany, some of repair or overhaul and some of the 100 % loss or minor crash.

If you are interested in operation of Bf 109 G-2, G-6 and G-8 aircraft in Finland, I recommend the following book:

"MERSU, Messerschmitt Bf 109 G Suomen ilmavoimissa" by Kari Stenman and published by Koala-kustannus. ISBN 978-952-229-188-2. 400 pages, 485 photos and 56 drawings.

See: http://www.koalakustannus.fi/kirjat/...php?id_prd=233

It contains full history of the Bf 109 operation in Finland from 1943 till 1954. There are details of every one of 162 aircraft flown by the FiAF, full list of claims etc. Engine numbers are however missing.

Unfortunately this book is in Finnish, but using Google translator it should be fairly easy to find the most important and interesting details.

Matti

[Dan History]

Originally Posted by Matti Salonen

Most of the dates are when the aircraft was received from Germany, some of repair or overhaul and some of the 100 % loss or minor crash.

If you are interested in operation of Bf 109 G-2, G-6 and G-8 aircraft in Finland, I recommend the following book

Matti, thank you for your generosity in sharing engine information from your database, and for the book recommendation.

The recovery of the Bf 109 mentioned in Kirill's post above is described in an online article by Evgeny Porfir'ev (Евгений Порфирьев) published in November 2016. The author suggests that this Bf 109 was shot down by Guards Senior Lieutenant Rechkalov (гвардии старший лейтенант Речкалов), a P-39 Airacobra ace of 16 GIAP who would become the second-highest scoring Soviet pilot of the Second World War. He observes that this contradicts the information in German loss records, which list this aircraft as lost in a collision with another Bf 109, WNr. 13469. Both German pilots survived.

http://kubplazdarm.tuapse.ru/aviatsi...et-messer.html

Kind regards,

Dan

[Frans A]

Matti Salonen

Thank you Matti for your answer

Frans A

[Rasmussen]

in addition to the list of DB engines from #13 some DB 601 (repair list of I./ JG 53)

[kirche]

Hello,
From our old cases...
Emil uestionable - should be hispan, but the desired number of the plane was never found (It's was "Frankenstein").
I wonder what the factories produced these motors?

[KrisJG3]

Originally Posted by kirche

Hello,
From our old cases...
(...)

Fw. Buchener (Karl?), II./JG.54
11 .08. 1942 Bf 109G-2 W.Nr. 10388

Pilot - POW (Russia)

[Tomislav Haramincic]

Hello Kirche,

DB605 WNr.35475 was a standard A-1 produced by the Henschel-Flugmotorenbau GmbH, Kassel (producer code hsr)
DB601 A-1 WNr.63742 was produced by Daimler-Benz Motoren GmbH, Genshagen Kreis Teltow (producer code hsq)

[kirche]

Tomislav, Thank you very much!
Best regards,
Kirill

[Dan History]

Rasmussen and Tony, thank you for your very informative contributions!

Regards,

Dan