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The following is a breakdown of the
general features of the Bf 109G-6/AS:
1. Wide engine cowl side panels with riveted
semielliptical aerodynamic fairings to fuselage.
2. Radiator under the engine as on standard
G-6, Type Fo 870.
3. The use of the larger Fo 987 radiator is also
recorded, with an Erla cover as on the G-10
Erla built in the 15xxxx and 49xxxx blocks.
4. Lower engine cowling minus bulge below the
oil tank.
5. Older aircraft with VDM 9-12087 propeller
(as on standard G-6), later versions with larger
VDM 9-12159 propeller with wider paddle
blades (as on the G-10).
6. Smaller supercharger intake on the left side
of the cowling, as on standard G-6, although
some aircraft (later production or overhauled/
repaired aircraft) were given the larger intake
(as on the G-10).
7. Access cover to supercharger clutch oil
pump on the right side of the engine cowl was
in a lower position.
8. Oil filler cap cover on the left side of the
nose in lower position.
9. Tall tail, Type 1.
10. Short tailwheel (usually).
11. Cockpit canopy with sharp inside corners
at the rear and with a small antenna mast
on the fuselage behind the cockpit. Aircraft
converted from standard G-6s had the mast on
the canopy frame and a number of these were
without a mast altogether.
12. The G-6/AS/y had a whip antenna
associated with the FuG 16zy system below the
fuselage(below the wing)
13. Small blade antenna for the FuG 25a IFF
system below the fuselage behind the wing
trailing edge.
14. Wing fairings over the wheel wells
were of the small type, as on the G-6, with
corresponding wheels.
15. Some Bf 109G-5s were converted to the G-5/
AS, serial numbers 110xxx. They were the same
as the G-6/AS, but carried a special tank below
the fuselage (associated with the GM-1?)
16. Most aircraft carried fuselage MG 151/20
cannons.
17. The cover on the 5th fuselage segment were
a feature of the Bf 109 G-6/AS/U4 with a MK 108
30 mm fuselage cannon. A total of 151 of them
were converted from the Bf 109 G-6/U4 built at
WNF, of which one was built by Erla, 130 were
made by Mimetall and twenty by Blohm & Voss
18. The GM-1 system pressure cylinder filling
neck cover, present on the Bf 109 G-6/U2/AS.
A total of 265 Bf 109 G-6/U2 conversions were
produced, of which 104 were performed by
Erla, 98 by Mimetall and 63 by Blohm & Voss.
In addition, 45 photo-reconnaissance Bf 109
G-6/U2/R2/AS were also produced at Erla
through conversion of Bf 109 G-6/U2s.
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