Cpt_Farrel

Could it be that the white band was painted over the stammkenzeichen and that the temporary nature of the paint has made the white flake away? Never heard for something like that before but the V does look similar to the fuselage color... Nice find either way! Cheers! / Anders

Erla built Bf109G-6. I'd say III./JG11 or III./JG54. They are the only units I can think of with yellow spinners.

I'm pretty certain that it IS outlined but it's a little hard to tell. As for Klöppers aircraft, again writing from memory, I seem to recall a similar balkenkruez which also had been filled with one of the additional colors. I think Claes Sundin has better captured the camo and details of Klööpers machine than the profile in the Mombeek book. (By Tom Tullis I believe)

There's another picture that shows the aircraft from the front. I think it's in the third volume of Mombeeks's JG1 trilogy from classic publications. It could also be in one of the Jagdwaffe volumes dealing with the Reich Defense. I don't have the books at hand right now but I could check better tomorrow.

The similar "White 1" from JG1 was flown by Heinrich Klöpper in Holland, November 1943 so the area is right too.

Exciting! But forget 1940, that's a Bf109G of some sort. Perhaps another of those Bf109G-5's or Bf109G-6's orignially delivered in all RLM76? This aircraft kind of reminds me of "White 1" from JG1, I can't recall the name of the pilot but it was also a bellylanded Bf109G-6...

The Bf109G-6/AS' aircraft are interesting too but I'm more curious about the regular Bf109G-6 or possibly Bf109G-5's delivered in this scheme. They seem to have been built by Erla and have ended up in several units engaged in the Reichdefense. As some of them are equipped with MG151 gondolas they can not have been intended for fighter vs. fighter combat. JG300 received some of these and then there's Yellow 11 from 9./JG54 which might have been mottled after delivery. Same for one or two aircraft from JG11. I'm writing from memory now but if anyone's interested maybe I could try and sort out the references better... Seems that some experiments were going on at Erla, some Bf109G-5's delivered to JG50 had the typical Erla "spot mottles" taken all up onto the spine rather than having the normal segemnted camo on top and mottles on the side.

What a great series of shots of those JG3 Bf109G-6's! The all RLM76 Bf109G-6 is very interesting, first time I saw that version in those colors with JG3

Haven't seen anything like it. Could it be some early experiment developing the Friedrich? The enginecowling and enlarged spinner seem to suggest that. Maybe the photographed the prototype in a frontline enviroment to confuse allied intelligence? Like the He100 hoax?