Batchy, that certainly looks like the airplane, in fact that picture you posted looks like it was taken on the terminal ramp here at Wiley Post (KPWA). This ME-109 has been around here for quite a while with no rudder. Guess what, it just took off again as I was writing this post and looking again I am sure it is the same airplane as in the picture.
Woomera, I really can’t tell you which engine modification it has, only that when it first took off I heard it before I saw it and I thought it was one of the P-51s. It might be one of the former Spanish Air Force ME-109s that was used in the making of the “Battle of Britain”, I believe they had Rolls Royce Merlin engines.
Last edited by con-pilot; 26th May 2004 at 18:00.