As indicated few days ago on the company’s website ,the restoration to flying conditions of the Messerschmitt Bf109 G2-4 commissioned by famed warbird collector Jerry Yagen, will restart immediately. On the company’s Facebook page the following comment was reported: “Work on the Messerschmitt Bf109 G4 is going on. Jerry Yagen gave us order to continue the project. We are very happy with that decision and we are going on with high priority to get the fighter airborne.”
The aircraft will have the might DB 605 engine. Accordingly to our sources Yagen’s Bf 109 was assembled from five wrecks which were recovered from Russia over a period of three years before 2011; a substantial portion of the plane was part of a Bf-109 built in 1939 as an E-3 variant, serial number 2023, and later converted to a E-7 with a long-range tank, which was shot down near Murmansk in May, 1942. The intent is to restore it as a G variant.
The Military Aviation Museum is home to one of the largest private collections of World War I and World War II era military aircraft in the world. This is without a doubt a good indication that Jerry Yagen is back in the game and that we should expect more exciting news soon. Stay Tuned!
Born in Milan, Italy, Moreno moved to the U.S. in 1999 to pursue a career as a commercial pilot. His aviation passion began early, inspired by his uncle, an F-104 Starfighter Crew Chief, and his father, a military traffic controller. Childhood adventures included camping outside military bases and watching planes at Aeroporto Linate. In 1999, he relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, to obtain his commercial pilot license, a move that became permanent. With 24 years in the U.S., he now flies full-time for a Part 91 business aviation company in Atlanta. He is actively involved with the Commemorative Air Force, the D-Day Squadron, and other aviation organizations. He enjoys life with his supportive wife and three wonderful children.
Its nice to see old aeroplanes given a new lease of life.Keep it up.
Bf109E 2023 is being worked on in Russia. The ‘G-4’ in the photo comes from a Spanish Buchon and has nothing to do with the E model.
I’ve been a 109 fan since I was nine years old. My father told me a story of seeing one zooming along at full throttle going over a bridge in Italy when he was in the Canadian Army as a dispatch rider. Ever since that story and he bought me a plastic model kit of a Bf 109 F I was hooked. I think it wonderful that more and more Daimler Benz 109s are flying again. Merlin engine Spanish 109 just don’t have the looks that the German ones do. Read the book “A Higher Call” if you get a chance and just to let you know they are making a movie out of it. Maybe they could use your 109 in it. Keep up the good work!