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• 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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