Nice to see an early one restored to fliying condition.
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Originally Posted by Catfish
Thanks for posting! I like those birds, good to see that at least some are being restored and even brought to flying condition. Not much left, and this one rescued from a swamp in Russia.. I do not dare to think of all that had to be done to make it fly again.
In Hannover there is the "Luftfahrtmuseum Laatzen", the (now diseased) founder pulled a Junkers 52/3m from this lake in Norway and had it restored, but compared to the 109 this one was in fairly good condition.
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BTW the 109 in Laatzen was recovered from the Mediterranean in the 1980ies IIRC. It looks really good though (even on the inside as I had once the pleasure to take a seat in it
). They really have tiny cockpits.
I believe the 190 was pieced together from three crashed specimen. Only the Spitfire was delivered intact.