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Second Production Variation:
Production blocks 26 000 (Erla), 27 000 (Erla),
32 000 (Erla), 33 000 (Erla) and 140 000 (WNF).
• They were usually equipped with a ZVG 16 direction
finder system with a PR 16 loop antenna (Peilrahmen)
on the fuselage spine (11), but not all aircraft carried
this system.
• The Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) FuG 25a system
with a rod antenna on the lower part of the fuselage
behind the 2nd fuselage bulkhead.
• Commanders’ machines could be equipped with
a FuG 16 ZY radio with an on-board transponder for
the Pegasus Y targeting system with a Morane-type
whip antenna (Moranmast), located under the fuselage
on the wing center section.
• Straight steel armor plate headrest.
• From production block 26 000 (Erla), Bf 109 G-6s had
a small fuel tank for used for engine starting between
fuselage bulkheads 4 and 5 on the fuselage spine, with
a filler neck on the right side (12).
• A REVI C 12 D gunsight.
• Bf 109 G-6/trop production block 140 000 of the WNF
(140 000 to 140 360) had two sunshade mounts on the
left side of the fuselage under the cockpit (13).
These airframes could be identified by the fol-
lowing features:
• Short antenna mast (10).
• The FuG 16 Z radio was carried. Aircraft with the FuG 16
Z lacked the Morane whip aerial (Moranmast), which
was specific to the FuG 16 ZY.
• Five photo-reconnaissance Bf 109 G-6/R3s were built
as part of the 140 000 (WNF) production block. Their
differences from the standard G-6 are described in the
paragraphs dedicated to them.
Example: Bf 109 G-6, W.Nr. 27169 (Erla Production), flown by Fw. Heinrich
Bartels, 11./JG 27, Kalamaki Air Field, November, 1943
• The 26 000 and 27 000 (Erla), and 140 000 (WNF)
production block airframes had a bump on the right
fairing above the breech of the MG 131 machine gun.
• Conversely, the 32 000 and 33 000 (Erla) production
blocks machines did not have the bump on the right
fairing above the breech of the MG 131 fuselage ma-
chine gun, which is an anomaly for the Erla-built
Bf 109 G-6.
Third Production Variation:
Production blocks 160 000 to 163 000 (Messer-
schmittt), 410 000 to 413 000 (Erla), 440 000 to
442 000 (WNF), 510 000 (WNF) and 760 000 (Györ
– Hungary).
These aircraft were identical to the second pro-
duction variation, the only visible change being
the new Gallandpanzer armor with laminated
armored glass behind the pilot’s head. The ques-
tion is whether or not it is necessary to consider
this incarnation as a separate production variant,
or whether it is merely an extension of the sec-
ond production variant, which were retroactively
equipped with this item.
These aircraft had the following distinctive fea-
tures:
• Armor plating behind the pilot’s head made of laminat-
ed armored glass of the Gallandpanzer type (14).
• Short antenna mast.
• FuG 16 Z radio unit.
• ZVG 16 homing system with a PR 16 loop antenna
(Peilrahmen) at the top of the fuselage (not always).
• Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) FuG 25a system with
its rod antenna on the bottom of the fuselage behind
bulkhead No.2.
• Commanders’ aircraft could be equipped with a FuG 16
ZY radio station with an on-board transponder for the
Pegasus Y targeting system with a Morane-type whip
antenna (Moranmast), located under the fuselage at
the wing center section.
• REVI C 12 D gunsight
• A small fuel tank used for starting the engine, with
a filler cap on the right side of the top of the fuselage
between fuselage bulkheads 4 and 5.
• Bf 109 G-6/U4/trop from production blocks 440 000
to 442 000 (up to 442 099) from WNF had two sunshade
mounts on the left side of the fuselage below the
cockpit.
• Bf 109 G-6/U4/trop from production blocks 440 000
to 442 000 (up to 442 099) and Bf 109 G-6/U4 from
510,000 by WNF had a hatch on the right side of the
fuselage between the 4th and 5th fuselage bulkheads
providing access to the compressed air bottles for the
MK 108 cannon (15).
• Bf 109 G-6/U2s from production blocks 410 000 to
412 000 (105 units) and 413 000 (240 units) from Erla
had a GM-1 cylinder access hatch on the right side of
the fuselage spine in front of the third fuselage bulk-
head (16).
• From the summer of 1944, Bf 109 G-6s were fitted with
the REVI 16 B gunsight. This applies to production blocks
162 000 (Messerschmittt), 413 000 (Erla), 442 000 and
510 000 (WNF).
• Production blocks 410 000 to 413 000 (Erla) aircraft had
a bump on the right fairing covering the breech of the
MG 131 machine gun.
Example: Bf 109 G-6, W.Nr. 440190 (WNF production), flown by Lt. Alfred
Hammer, Commanding Officer of 6./JG 53, Vienna - Seyring, February 1944.
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