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Pure fighter par excellence, it shared the front line of the Luftwaffe with the Focke Wulf 190 throughout the Second World War.
Continuously updated and improved, it represented an irreplaceable element in the arsenal of the Luftwaffe, remaining in service from the Battle of Britain until the last day of the war.
• The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is the most famous German fighter of the Second World War.
It served between 1937 and 1945 and faced an incredible series of increasingly aggressive opponents, which were faced with continuous modifications and improvements that largely exceeded the limits of the original project; in the end it doubled the weight and tripled the original power, the inevitable price of which was a significantly reduced autonomy compared to the first series. It was an extremely versatile aircraft: its latest versions even included a high-altitude fighter with a pressurized cabin.
• It was still produced after the war in Czechoslovakia and Spain, and a total of about 35,000 were built: one of the largest production runs of all time.
In books and magazines it is sometimes also called Me 109, from the contraction of the name of the manufacturer.
The acronym Bf instead indicates the name of the production factory (Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG) which in July 1938 changed its name to Messerschmitt AG.