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Bf 109 G-10 Messerschmitt Regensburg,
Production Block 130 100 to 130 700
The Messerschmitt mother plant in
Regensburg produced 123 Bf 109G-10s through
November and December, 1944, switching
over from the Bf 109G-14/AS by replacing the
DB 605AS with the DB 605D. the last three
pieces were evidently delivered in January, 1945.
This aircraft were externally virtually identical
to later G-14/AS aircraft coming out of
Mtt. Regensburg (780 xxx to 787 xxx Production
Block), and differed only in small details.
General identifying features of this
version were:
1. Wide engine cowl side panels with riveted
semielliptical aerodynamic fairings to
fuselage.
2. Bottom cowl panel with small bumps under
the oil tank.
3. Radiator under the engine was the larger
Fo 987.
4. Larger supercharger intake on the left side
of the cowling.
5. Oil filler cap cover on the left side of the
nose in higher position.
6. Access cover to supercharger clutch oil
pump on the right side of the engine cowl
was in a higher position. The original lower
position was patched over.
7. Wide blade propeller as on the G-10
(VDM 9-12159)
8.Tall tail Type 6.
9. Cockpit canopy with rounded inside corners
at the rear and without an antenna mast on
the fuselage behind the cockpit, with the
antenna lead going directly into the fuselage
(or could also be attached to a mast on the
canopy frame on some aircraft).
10. Long tailwheel.
11. A whip antenna associated with the
FuG 16zy system was located under the left
wing (glass panel).
12. Small blade antenna for the FuG 25a IFF
system below the fuselage behind the wing
trailing edge.
13. MW50 water-methanol injection system
and its associated equipment – a box fairing
on the rear wall of the cockpit behind the
headrest, and an access panel on the right
side of the spine behind the cockpit.
14. Small fairing covering the wheel wells on
the upper surface of the wings, as on the G-6,
with corresponding wheels.
15. Fuselage mounted MG 151/20 cannons. The
cover located in the fifth fuselage segment
only appeared on aircraft with MK 108 30mm
cannons mounted in the fuselage, and
Messerschmitt did not install that weapon
on their G-10s, only the MG 151/20. There may
have been instances where the cover was
present as a result of using older airframes,
such those of the Bf 109G-4.
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