 The personal aircraft of the Geschwaderkommodore, Hannes Trautloft. The Geschwaderstab of JG54 recieved it's Bf 109G-2's in July 1942 but it's not known when photos of this aircraft were taken. This aircraft has the same kind of head armour as used for the Bf 109G-1’s pressurized cockpit. It also lacks the small intake below the windscreen. The uppercolors consist of three different shades of green. The darkest color looks like RLM 70 while the lightest, although looking like a tan or earthbrown color in some pictures, propably is RLM02 which appears like a tan color in certain lighting conditions, especially in old and faded color photos. There are several theories regarding the medium green. One of these theories, put forward by Claes Sundin, is that it's caputred Russian paint, AMT-4 or locally mixed German paint made to look like the Russian AMT-4. Another theory that comes from Ken Merrick is that it's RLM62 which was used as a fieldtest before being re-implemented into the system under the name RLM82 |