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Messerschmitt Me 309

Prototype




Messerschmitt Me 309 Prototype fighter

Service Data

In Service: 18 July 1942 to 1945

Production Data

First Flight: 18 July 1942
Manufacturer: Messerschmitt
Number built: 4

Technical Data

Type: Prototype fighter

Crew: 1 man
Length: 9.46 m
Wingspan: 11.04 m
Wing area: 16.55 m²
Height:
Empty: 3,530 kg
Loaded: 4,250 kg
Engine: 1 × Daimler-Benz DB 603G 12 cylinder liquid cooled supercharged inverted Vee piston engine producing up to1,900 hp
Maximum speed: 733 km/h
Range: 1,400 km
Service ceiling: 12,000 m
Armament:
2 × 15 mm MG 151/15 machine guns
3 × 13 mm MG 131 machine guns
Bomb load up to 2 × 250 kg
Electronics:
Operators: Luftwaffe
Variants:
Me 309 V-1
Me 309 V-2
Me 309 V-3
Me 309 V-4

Other: Prototypes
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History

The Messerschmitt Me 309 was a single seat low wing monoplane all metal fighter prototype

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Sources

The Warplanes of the Third Reich.
ISBN-10: 0385057822

German Aircraft of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0370000242

Hitler's Luftwaffe.
ISBN-10: 051718771X

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