• 2020-124.113
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Jack Maxwell Shaw personal collection. Air to air view of a captured Luftwaffe Bf109, with RAF colours and serial number AE479.
    air to air
    Shaw
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    RAF
    Luftwaffe
    Messerschmitt
    BF109
    AE479
  • 2018-242.21
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Alexander McIntyre Crocket personal collection. Rear wheel of Messerschmitt Bf109 at RNZAF Station Nelson. This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight.
    World War Two
    WW2
    RNZAF
    Crocket
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Nelson
    Messerschmitt
    BF109
    Erdniss
    JG51
  • 2018-242.17
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Alexander McIntyre Crocket personal collection. Rear wheel of Messerschmitt Bf109 at RNZAF Station Nelson. This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight. Original negative at 2018-242.21.
    World War Two
    WW2
    RNZAF
    Crocket
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Nelson
    Messerschmitt
    BF109
    Erdniss
    JG51
  • DWAsst1
    Des White
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Des White personal collection. Interior view of the hangar at RNZAF Station Nelson. Aircraft in view are: Oxford, Harvard, the tail of a Kittyhawk and the Messerschmitt Bf109 without wings hanging from the ceiling at the far end. This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight.
    hangar
    World War Two
    White
    WW2
    RNZAF
    Nelson
    Messerschmitt
    Harvard
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    BF109
    Erdniss
    JG51
  • ALB198236513028
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Sheddan
    Image from the CJ Sheddan log book. High view of Messerschmitt Bf109 '465466' "Black 8" from JG 51, in a field with other captured German aircraft. Copenhagen-Kastrup Airfield, Denmark
    ME109
    Messerschmitt
    RNZAF
    Sheddan
    WW2
    World War Two
    damage
    Denmark
    Kastrup
    Copenhagen
    Bf109
    JG 51
  • MUS971013
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    The Evening Post
    Group of RNZAF airmen posed around a partly stripped Messerschmitt Bf109, No. 1654. Believed to be in Wellington. This aircraft, piloted by Wilhelm Erdniss, from 3./JG 51 belly landed on 27 November 1940 at Monks Horton after a dogfight.
    Wellington
    RNZAF
    Messerschmitt
    German
    BF109
    JG51
    Erdniss
    1654