Warplanes of Germany: Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 110

German warplanes of the Second World War, Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstorer

Deutsche Flugzeuge aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Messerschmitt Bf 110 Zerstorer

The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War that have been preserved.  Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website.  Photos are as credited.  Any errors found here are by the author, and any additions, corrections or amendments to this list of Warplane Survivors of the Second World War would be most welcome and may be e-mailed to the author at [email protected].

Ziel dieser Website ist es, erhaltene Kampfflugzeuge aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu lokalisieren, zu identifizieren und zu dokumentieren. Viele Mitwirkende haben bei der Suche nach diesen Flugzeugen mitgewirkt, um die Daten auf dieser Website.bereitzustellen und zu aktualisieren. Fotos gelten als gutgeschrieben. Alle hier gefundenen Fehler sind vom Autor und Ergänzungen, Korrekturen oder Ergänzungen zu dieser Liste der Überlebenden des Zweiten Weltkriegs sind sehr willkommen und können per E-Mail an den Autor unter [email protected] gesendet werden.

(Luftwaffe Photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 110 of Zerstörergeschwader 76 (ZG 76) heavy fighter wing over the English Channel. 1940.

(Luftwaffe Photos)

Messerschmitt Bf 110, heavy fighter/night-fighter.

(RAF Photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 110 C-5, (Wk. Nr. 2177), coded 5F+CM, flew with Luftwaffe reconnaissance unit 4(F)/14.  It force-landed at Goodwood Racecourse, Sussex, after being hit by gunfire, on 21 July 1940.  RAF AX772.

(RAF Photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4/R6, (Wk. Nr. 730301) with FuG220 radar, captured at Grove, Denmark.  Designated RAF AM34, this aircraft is preserved in the RAF Museum, Hendon.

(John Parr Photo)

 (Calgaco Photo)

(Kogo Photo)

(Kogo Photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4/R6, (Wk. Nr. 730301) with FuG220 radar, captured at Grove, Denmark in May 1945.  Designated RAF AM34, this aircraft is displayed in the RAF Museum, Hendon.

(IWM Photos)

The wreckage of Rudolf Hess' Messerschmitt Bf 110E "VJ+OQ", Werk Nr 3869, after crashing at Bonnyton Moor, Scotland, on 10 May 1941. VJ+OQ was a conventional two-seat Bf 110 (This was an early 110E, with the extended rear fuselage - to house a dinghy – of the 110D).

(IWM Photo, H995)

Messerschmitt Bf 110 (Wk. Nr. 3869), coded VJ-OQ, after the flight of Rudolf Hess ended in a crash in Scotland on 11 May 1941.  Hess baled out of his aircraft over Floors Farm when he could not find a landing site in the dark. It is possible that he hoped to land at RAF Dundonald, an operational relief landing ground under the contrl of RAF Turnhouse. The photo shows a British officer inspects the wreckage of Hess' Messerchmitt Bf 110 after it had been removed to an RAF depot, Scotland, 13 May 1941. Hess wrote his wife Ilse on 12 Feb 1950, that his compass navigatiional system had failed. Hess was sentenced to life in prison and spent the rest of his life in Spandau prison, where he died on 17 August 1987. (John Harris and Richard Wilbourn)

Hess made a solo flight to Scotland, where he hoped to arrange peace talks with the Duke of Hamilton, whom he believed to be a prominent opponent of the British government's war policy. The British authorities arrested Hess immediately on his arrival and held him in custody until the end of the war, when he was returned to Germany to stand trial at the 1946 Nuremberg trials of major war criminals. During much of his trial, Hess claimed to be suffering from amnesia, but he later admitted to the court that this had been a ruse. The court convicted him of crimes against peace and of conspiracy with other German leaders to commit crimes. He served a life sentence in Spandau Prison; the Soviet Union blocked repeated attempts by family members and prominent politicians to procure his early release. While still in custody as the only prisoner in Spandau, he hanged himself in 1987 at the age of 93. (Wikipedia)

(Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1987-0313-507)

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War. He was taken prisoner and eventually convicted of crimes against peace. He was still serving his life sentence at the time of his suicide in 1987. (Wikipedia)

(Alan Wilson Photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 110, (Wk. Nr. 3869), remains of the fusleage of the aircraft flown by Rudolf Hess in the IWM, London.

(Ra Boe Photo)

(Klaus Nahr Photo)

(Ricardo Reis Photo)

(MisterBee1966 Photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4, (Wk. Nr. 5052), on display in the Deutsches Tecknik Museum, Berlin, Germany.

(USAAF Photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 110 wreckage examined by American forces, Bad-Abling, Germany, May 1945.

(USAAF Photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 110, (Wk. Nr. 730085) being used as the background for a USAAF pilot discussion.

(Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-360-2095-23 / Wanderer, W. / CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Messerschmitt Bf 110 formation.

(Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-669-7340-27 / Blaschka / CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Messerschmitt Bf 110 formation over Budapest, 1944.

The following Bf 110 are in various states of preservation (DEANO):

Bf 110C Zerstörer (Werk Nr. 3115) in the UK. Publicly they have an unknown quantity of parts. It was recovered from Russia and had flown with 1./(Z)JG77.

Bf 110C-4 Zerstörer (Werk Nr. 3577) with upgraded crew armour,  privately owned in Italy. They apparently have enough of the airframe to be able to fully restore it! This aircraft had flown with H8+FM 4.(H) 33.

Bf 110F-2 long-range Zerstörer (Werk Nr. 5048) at the Finnish AF Museum, Tikkakoski. This one flew with TI+LA but is apparently just a few parts in storage.

Bf 110F-2 long-range Zerstörer (Werk Nr. unknown) at the Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola in Norway. They have the wings, tail and parts of the fuselage of this Bf 110 that flew with LN+DR 10.(Z)/JG 5.

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