First flight in the U.S. for the Military Aviation Museum's Bf 109-G5.

Jerry Yagen, the museum’s benefactor, has earned a reputation for dazzling visitors with rare and exotic flying machines. This year will be no exception as he plans to debut the newest addition to his collection—a Messerschmitt Bf 109G-5. Meier Motors in Eschbach, Germany restored this particular example using a combination of newly fabricated components augmented with parts from a license-built, Spanish ’109 variant, the Hispano Buchon. There are a number of Rolls-Royce Merlin-powered Buchon/109s around the world, but Yagen’s G-model is powered by a Daimler-Benz DB 605 engine, just like the WWII Luftwaffe originals. The authentic power plant and cowlings give the German fighter the look, sound and performance of a fighter that could have rolled off the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke factory line in 1943-44. Read more http://www.warbirdsnews.com/tag/bf-109