I cant beleive you guys are still on about this.
We have all enough decent books to know what the respective ratios are. The LW was comprised of He-111, Do-17, and Ju-88 KGs, 110 and 109 JGs, a Jabo ZG and Stukagruppen. To suggest they didnt have a numerical advantage vs Fighter Command is just not correct.
That being said, if you are going to try and invade a country and gain air superiority, you do it with a force that is stronger than your opposition, not weaker. The LW needed what it had to throw at the British, who had the benefit of being the defender. The LW was the attacker, and the burden was on them to have some striking power. Which they certainly did.
The reason the BoB is an interesting campaign is because it was hard fought, and one of the purer air campaigns fought in WW2, with the Channel being the dividing line.
Also, it is true that no air force ever sorties its entire fleet at the enemy at once, this happens rarely, and as such, a defending force with a smaller # of fighters can last. That happened in BoB, Malta certainly, Guadalcanal 1942, and the 8th AF vs the LW. As long as one side can replace fighters and aircrew, it can hold out, as air combat is attritional in nature, at the end of the day you return to your safe bases to begin anew again.
Imho, the biggest drawback to the preparation for Sealion was the very tight schedule the LW faced, they were reorganising after France still in July 1940, and were not able to really start ops vs Britain proper untill August 1940, with "Adler Tag" being Aug 13th. Thats about 6 weeks max to do the job, before the weather changes in the Channel in October, and makes an invasion impracticle. They ran out of time more than anything, and were let down by Berlins bad handling of the strategy, who underestimated British a/c production, and the ability to replace pilots lost, it had little to do with wether a Spit was 10mph faster than a 109 at 12k.
As for the # of 109s available, I will give what I have, and leave it at that, do what you like with the info:
"Bf 109E Aces 1939-41" by John Weal
I will list the bases, and serviceable #s for each unit August 13th, 1940 "Eagle Day":
Luftlotte 2 109Es (JG3, JG26, JG51, JG52, JG54):
Stab JG3 Wierre-au-Bois 3
I/JG3 Grandvillers 32
II/JG3 Samer 22
III/JG3 Le Touquet 29
Stab JG26 Audembert 4
I/JG26 Audembert 34
II/JG26 Marquise 35
III/JG26 Caffiers (Gallands unit) 38
Stab JG51 Wissant (Molders) 4
I/JG 51 Calais 32
II/JG 51 Marquise 33
III/JG 51 St Omer 30
Stab JG52 Coquelles 1
I/JG52 Coquelles 33
II/JG52 Peuplingues 32
III/JG52 Zerbst 11
I/LG2 St Omer 30
Stab JG54 Campagnel-les-Guines 2
I/JG54 Guines 24
II/JG54 Hermelingen 32
III/JG54 Guines 40
Total serviceable fighters: 513 (590 total ac) placed opposite No.11 Group.
Luftlotte 3 109Es (JG2, JG27, JG53):
Stab JG2 Beaumont 3
I/JG2 Beaumont 32
II/JG2 Beaumont 28
III/JG2 Le Havre 28
Stab JG27 Cherbourg 4
I/JG27 Plumetot 32
II/JG27 Crepon 32
III/JG27 Arcques 32
Stab JG3 Cherbourg 6
I/JG3 Guernsey (A British Channel Island) 37
II/JG3Guernsey (A British Channel Island) 34
III/JG3 Brest 35
Total serviceable fighters: 334 (386 total ac) placed opposite No.10 Group.
*And there were the Bf 110s as well, which I dont have any exact info on*
All of the above groups took part in ops vs the RAF. They are not in Norway, nor are they in Germany.
Regards.