Bf-109 G-1 in Stalingrad

[Pitomnik]

May be this back-panzer plate not from G-1 too ?

[Revi16]

What harrison987 is saying is that while the canopy may have been built to fit a pressurized aircraft (G-1, G-3, G-5), it could have just as easily been installed on a non-pressurized aircraft if needed (G-2, G-4, G-6) or it may have been a spare canopy/part.

Because there is very little to no damage seen on the canopy, it could have been a spare part and never installed on an aircraft. There just isn't enough evidence to conclude it was used on a particular G-1.

Was it built as a pressurized canopy.....YES. Was it installed on a particular aircraft........No way to tell.

[Pitomnik]

Ok !
Spare parts for NEW type Bf109 - on infantry positions .....? I dont think so.
Bf109 G-1 WerkNr. 14030 was emergency landing in Kotelnikowo - and this canopy can reinstaled on another plane (G-2, G-4) and this plane was emergency landing near Stalingrad - its possible ? Yes !
New type canopy for G-1 (only 167 was made) - build more , 200 or 300 pieces in 1942 (for spare and use on all type "Gustav" !!!!! - possible ? No, dont thing so.
The field (near canopy found point) - see many alluminium fragment, i think need check this field, may be this field give me answer .... G-1 or G-2,4....

[gaupe75]

If the plans were to build more G1/G3/G5s than what really were built, there might have been quite a lot of surplus parts. These parts were of course never thrown away, but installed on other planes. This might be the case here, hard to tell.

[harrison987]

There is absolutely no evidence anywhere to suggest ANY specific model.

It could have been jettisoned during a bail out...landed on the ground, and merely collected as scrap.

This was found alone...in a hole...with NO other aircraft parts around.

The only thing that is certain is that it is from a G-model.

The exact model type it was "actually" installed on, will be impossible to determine.

As I have already mentioned to you in multiple emails...we have found MANY G2, G4, G6 models that had PRESSURIZED features...and G1, G3, G5 models that had NON-PRESSURIZED features.

You can believe whatever you want to believe, but the reality is, you will never be able to determine what specific aircraft type it is from...OR how it got in that hole.