Warbird Information Exchange

Today Platinum Fighter Sales announced on their FB site, that ex-Russell Groups Bf 109 E has been sold to UK.

https://www.facebook.com/platinumfightersales

Michael

Well, if I'm completely honest, that would probably be the best environment for it, particularly if the paint is refreshed a bit to bring it more in line with it's Aug/Sept 1940 appearance when flown by a particular misfit by the name of Hans J. Marseille (i.e. strip the silly decorations off of the rudder).

It will look AMAZING in flight with the recently restored N3200 and P9374. I wish the new owners many years of enjoyment in flying and maintaining it... but PLEASE be careful!

Lynn

Erich Hartmann was being tortured and tormented by his post war Russian captors and they accused him of being the greatest fighter pilot of all time with 350 victories. He replied "Marseille had 150 on the Western front and one kill on the western front is equal to 3 on the Eastern Front" There will never be another Marseille, it needs to be painted as his bird, IMO.

Shame it is going across the pond...glad I was able to see it all those times up at Willow Run.

CF-EML is already painted in Marseille colours due to the fact that this is the actual one
that he had time on in the ETO

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...it was a plane adrift beneath the moon moving serenely thru beams like an angel of the night .....fair as a song ........aloof from mortal dreams

Noooooooooo!!!

I'm not even a 109 fan, but something about this plane had me drawn to it. Had I won the lotto, it was coming to my collection.

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Tyler Pinkerton
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