The Avia S-199 is a propeller-driven Messerschmitt Bf 109G-based fighter aircraft built after World War II using the Bf 109G airframe and a Junkers Jumo 211F engine in place of the original and unavai
Avia S-199 Sakeen at the Israeli Air Force Museum, Hatzerim, Israel
Daimler-Benz DB 605 engine
Avia CS-199; Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a monoplane fighter aircraft that was designed and initially produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Bayerische Flugzeugwerke. Together with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, the
Avia S-199
…In practice, the aircraft was more often called Messerschmitt or Messer (which also means "knife" in German and Yiddish). Avia continued building Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10s after the war under the Avia S-99 name at two aircraft factories in Czechoslovakia. One of them was officially called závod Avia (Avia Plant…
A Bf 109G-6 of JG 27 "Afrika" in flight, 1943
A drawing of the V1 prototype
JG 53 Bf 109E-3, c. 1939/1940