In Service:
First Flight:
Manufacturer: Messerschmitt
Number built: 33,000 All variants
Type: Fighter
Crew: 1 man
Length: 8.51 m
Wingspan: 9.97 m
Wing area: m²
Height: 2.59 m
Empty: 1,580 kg
Loaded: 2,120 kg
Engine: 1 ×
Junkers
Jumo 210D 12 cylinder supercharged liquid cooled inverted
Vee engine producing 635 hp
Maximum speed: 470 km/h
Range:
Service ceiling: 8,100 m
Armament:
2 ×
7.92 mm
MG 17 machine guns above engine
1 ×
7.92 mm
MG 17 machine gun firing through propeller
Bomb load up to
Electronics:
Operators: Luftwaffe, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Hungary,
Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland
Variants:
Bf 109A
Bf 109B
Bf 109 B-0 1 × Junkers Jumo
210B
12 cylinder supercharged liquid cooled inverted Vee engine
producing 610 hp
Bf 109 B-1 1 × Junkers Jumo
210D
12 cylinder supercharged liquid cooled inverted Vee engine
producing 635 hp
Bf 109 B-2 1 × Junkers Jumo
210E
12 cylinder supercharged liquid cooled inverted Vee engine
producing 640 hp
Bf 109C
Bf 109D
Bf 109E
Bf 109F
Bf 109G
Bf 109H
Bf 109K
Bf
109S
Bf 109T
Bf
109TL
Bf
109Z
Other: Fighters
Articles:
The Warplanes of the Third Reich.
ISBN-10: 0385057822
German Aircraft of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0370000242
Hitler's Luftwaffe.
ISBN-10: 051718771X
For a complete list of
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