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The "Red 7" is a Bf 109G-4 made from a Hispano Aviación HA-1112-M1L Buchón. The
restoration began in 1997 in Albstadt/Degerfeld, a nice airfield in south/west Germany. The maidenflight as "Red 7" was in 2004. I visited the hangar in which it was built in 2018, and talked to Wilhelm Heinz, one of the former owners and pilots. There was no original of this machine in WW2. The "Red 7" shows a Bf 109 without glorifying any pilot and just shows how a Bf 109 in general looked. In 2008 the ´109 was sold to the Messerschmitt-Stiftung (Messerschmitt Foundation), which keeps it flying and presents it on airshows:
https://www.flugmuseum-messerschmitt.de/messerschmitt/aircraft/me109-g4/index.html The model was made from the excellent kit from AZmodel, which
comes from the same moulds like the KP kits (see my Avia S-199 on ARC on May 9
2019). The model was painted with colours from Revell (enamels) by brush and sealed with clear, flat varnish. Thomas Brückelt
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Photos and text © by Thomas Brückelt