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October. All remaining airframes built up to the
end of the war in blocks 491 xxx, 150 xxx and
151 xxx were to Bf 109 G-10/R6 standard. The
R6 suffix indicated the presence of an PKS 12
autopilot. The first planes reached Luftwaffe
units in the second half of October. In all, Erla
buiilt 1,520 Bf 109 G-10s.
The identifying features of this
version are:
1. Engine cowl – left side wide cowl without
the elliptical bulged structure; right side
with elliptical aerodynamic feathering to the
fuselage.
2. Bottom of engine cowl without bulges below
the oil tank, but with a wider front section
than seen on the standard G-6 and G-10 from
Mtt. Regensburg and WNF.
3. Radiator under the engine was the larger
Fo 987 with a specific covering.
4. Large supercharger intake on the left side of
the cowl.
5. Oil tank filler cap access placed higher up on
the left side of the nose.
6. Access cover to supercharger clutch oil
pump on the right side of the engine cowl was
in a higher position (extending to the gun trough
panel).
7. VDM 9-12159 propeller with wide blades.
8. Small wheel well fairing on the upper wing
as on the G-6, with corresponding wheels. Could
also have larger wheels with larger fairings.
At least a part of the 150 xxx and 151 xxx
Production Blocks had the larger wheels (660
x 190) and the corresponding larger upper wing
fairings, as were seen on G-10s produced by
WNF.
9. Cockpit canopy with rounded inside corners
at the rear.
10. Antenna mast on the canopy frame on 49xxxx
aircraft, without a mast on 15xxxx aircraft.
11. Longer gun troughs for the fuselage guns and
typical form of skinning around them.
12. Long tailwheel.
13. Type 1 tail (could have had an additional trim
tab on the upper trailing edge) or Type 6 (later
machines) in the 490 xxx and 491 xxx range.
14. Type 6 or 9 tail in the 150 xxx and 151 xxx
range.
15. A whip antenna associated with the FuG 16zy
system was located under the left wing (glass
cover).
16. Small blade antenna for the FuG 25a IFF
system below the fuselage behind the wing
trailing edge.
17. MW50 water-methanol injection system and
its associated equipment – a box fairing on the
rear wall of the cockpit behind the headrest
(with, in this case, the PKS 12 Autopilot unit
below it), and an access panel on the right side
of the spine behind the cockpit.
18. The cover located in the fifth fuselage
segment only appeared on aircraft with MK 108
30mm cannons mounted in the fuselage. Erla
produced Bf 109 G-10s had a fuselage mounted
MG 151/20 cannon, and typically lacked the
access cover. There could be cases where the
production of the fighter used the fuselage of
an older airframe that had the access cover in
place, though.
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