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    Airframe Family: Messerschmitt Bf-109 / HA-1109/1110/1112 / S-99/199
    Latest Model:Bf-109G-6 Gustav
    Last Military Serial:163306 Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:163306
    Compressed ID:Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6 sn 163306 L...
    Latest Owner or Location:Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship)

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    Dates

    Event

    11 May 1944

    Constructed as a Bf-109G-6.
    Stammkennzeichen RQ+DM assigned

    May 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n 163306.

    May 1944

    Transferred to 2 Staffel, Jagdgruppe West.
    Operated with markings: red 3

    26 May 1944

    Crashed.
    Crashed and sunk into Lake Trabun (now Trzebun) just after takeoff from airfield at Gabbert (now Jaworze). Pilot Feldwebel Ernst Pleines did not survived.

    1999

    Recovered from Lake Trzebun by Gdansk-based Klub Pletwonurkow Rekin (Shark Divers Club).

    From 1999 to 2001

    Restored.
    By Polish Eagles Aviation Foundation.

    19 June 2010


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Goraszka, Mazowieckie, Poland

    October 2014

    Placed on display with Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship).
    Since 2001 displayed here on several temporary exhibitions.
    View the Location Dossier

    23 June 2018


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow, Poland.
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     John Bennett
    Marcin Rogowski
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