These are 3 of the Bf109G-6 aircraft that were used for the annual Finnish Air Races at Utti air base held on 24 June 1950.

Four participants are known to have taken part in the races, two of which we have been able to Identify using either the serial number visible on the fuselage:
* Blue "B", MT-508, from the HLeLv 31 (which was the HLeLv 24 before the 4th of December 44)

And also the squadron logo on the tailplane
* Red "D", MT-402 from the HLeLv 33   (which was the HLeLv 34 up to the 4th of December 44)

Our attempts to identify the colours used on the next AC resulted in the aircraft being shown in yellow paintwork with a red surround, however this is purely speculation based on a single B&W photograph where the aircraft is partially obscured.
* "A", color and Finnish code unknown

We have not supplied the fourth AC because there are no known photographs of it that we know of. Common sense dictates that it would have been coded 'C' simply due to the presence of 'A' 'B' and 'D'
* "C" no known photo up to now

That's all the information we have from this event. If you can shed any further light on this topic, please feel free to post on the SimHQ EAW BB.


Yours LLv34_Doc
30 September 2003


The aircraft are based on the great Bf109G package made by Mr. Johnson. Also present is FreddyB's 'trop' filter.

Paint by DeanH with lots of help from Doc_1 (thanks mate).
This has been a VERY different exercise from those usually undertaken by me for EAW skins, however it has also been very interesting, I would never have known anything about this aspect of the Finnish AF if Olivier had never asked. Also it was good to revisit the 109g skins again.
Hope you like them, remember, go fast and leave a good looking corpse! 

DeanH

