• 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
  • PF52-E-96
    RNZAF
    Warbirds Over Wanaka air show. 3/4 front view of Messerschmitt Me109 on the flight line.
    RNZAF
    Warbirds Over Wanaka
    air show
    Wanaka
    Messerschmitt
    Me109
  • PF52-36-96
    RNZAF
    Warbirds Over Wanaka air show. 3/4 rear view of Nord Pingouin ZK-WFI, painted as a Messerschmitt Bf108 on the flight line.
    RNZAF
    Warbirds Over Wanaka
    air show
    Wanaka
    Nord
    Pingouin
    Messerschmitt
    Bf108
  • PF52-35-96
    RNZAF
    Warbirds Over Wanaka air show. 3/4 front view of Nord Pingouin ZK-WFI, painted as a Messerschmitt Bf108 on the flight line.
    Wanaka
    air show
    Warbirds Over Wanaka
    RNZAF
    Nord
    Pingouin
    Messerschmitt
    Bf108
  • MUS0901414
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    3/4 front view of a captured German Messerschmitt ME109, painted with British roundels, on the airfield at RAF Station Luqa, Malta.
    World War Two
    WW2
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Luftwaffe
    RAF
    Messerschmitt
    ME109
    Malta
    Luqa
  • MUS0901427
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    German Pilot, Oberfeldwebel Johann Hermann, standing in front of his Messerschmitt Me110. Unknown location.
    Luftwaffe
    Me110
    Messerschmitt
    WW2
    World War Two
    Hermann
  • 1999-058.33
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Bryan Young personal collection. Captured German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me109 KT+W?, missing many parts, at Catania, Sicily, Italy. Bryan Young's information supplied "October 1943. During the landings at Salerno in Italy I succumbed to an onslaught of malaria, was evacuated to an RAF hospital at Catania in Sicily, recovered and while waiting for air transport back to the squadron [I] snapped this picture of a wrecked ME 109 in its blast bay on the aerodrome."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RAF
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Young
    Italy
    Catania
    Luftwaffe
    Messerschmitt
    Me109
    damage
  • 1999-058.32
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the Bryan Young personal collection. German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me210 at RAF Station Catania, Sicily, Italy. Bryan Young's information supplied "Same as for photo [1999-058.33] with a different German aircraft surrounded by debris and wreckage of other aeroplanes. I think the photo shows the remains of an ME210 nightfighter."
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Catania
    Italy
    Luftwaffe
    RAF
    RNZAF
    WW2
    World War Two
    Young
    damage
    Me210
    Messerschmitt
    Catania
    Italy
  • MUS960999
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    German pilot Major Wilhelm Hegert and crew prepare to take off in a Messerschmitt Me110. Unknown location. Information on Major Hegert is under MUS9609911.
    Woprld War Two
    WW2
    Luftwaffe
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Hegert
    Messerschmitt
    Me110
  • 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
  • 2012-405.151
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson(?), standing on the wing of a captured Messerschmitt ME109 from JG51. RAF Station Kastrup.
    ME109
    Messerschmitt
    Luftwaffe
    486 Sqn
    No. 486 Squadron
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Atkinson
    JG51
    Denmark
    Kastrup
  • 2012-405.152
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson, standing in the cockpit of a captured Messerschmitt ME410 D1+AH from 2.(F)/22. RAF Station Kastrup, Denmark.
    ME410
    Messerschmitt
    486 Sqn
    No. 486 Squadron
    RNZAF
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    World War Two
    WW2
    Atkinson
    Luftwaffe
    Germany
  • 2012-405.149
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Image from the RJ Atkinson personal collection. No. 486 Squadron pilot, Reginald John Atkinson, sitting on the wing of an overturned ME109. Handwritten on the reverse "Sorta bent about a bit but still enough room for me to perch. ME109. Rhine. Germany. April 45." See duplicate print, 2012-405.149, with complimentary details on the reverse
    Atkinson
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    RNZAF
    No. 486 Squadron
    486 Sqn
    Luftwaffe
    Messerschmitt
    ME109
    Rhine
    Germany
    damage
  • MUS0800112
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
    Side view of Messerschmitt ME109e from 1./JG20. with a bow and arrow unit emblem on the engine cowl. Unknown location. Unit identification taken from the photo published in "[German] Camouflage and Markings 1935 - 1945. Part 1" by Jaroslaw Wrobel. ISBN 83-86208-08-2
    JG20
    ME109
    Messerschmitt
    Luftwaffe
    WW2
    World War Two
    Air Force Museum of New Zealand
  • 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