After a comprehensive overhaul lasting almost three years, the EADS Heritage Flight's Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10 Werknummer 151591 D-FDME took to the air again at Manching in Bavaria on 5 April, sporting a new look. This unique airworthy example of the G-10 variant, originally converted from a Merlin-powered HAI I 12-MI L Buchon to Daimler-Benz DB605-engined configuration by Hans Dittes, was quite familiar on the British airshow scene for a period starting in the mid-1990s when it was operated by the Duxford-based Old Flying Machine Company while still owned by Dittes. It then passed to the Messerschmitt Stiftung to support its preservation in airworthy condition. Still painted as 'Black 2', the aircraft flew occasionally as part of what became the EADS Heritage Flight fleet, but it suffered a landing mishap on the opening day of the ILA Berlin Air Show in May 2008 when its starboard undercarriage leg gave way.
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