Bf 109G-10 of 2./JG 27. Salzburg, Austria. May 1945
This aircraft was photographed in a belly-landed state in May 1945. It features a simplified camouflage scheme used by the Erla plant from April 1945. The fuselage was painted overall in RLM 81 dark green, even the underside. The wings and stabilizers also were painted this color on the top sides, with the undersides being painted with RLM 76 light blue with some panels being left bare metal. A brighter green, probably a variation of RLM 82, was added over the dark green on this aircraft. The bright green tail band used by JG 27 is seen, sometimes confused for being the yellow band of JG 11 due to the high contrast with the camouflage, but no other 109 equipped units were using tail bands of a single bright color at the time of this plane's construction. There is also some debate about the color of the side number as it appears black in the reference photo. I went with red as it does sometimes appear black in photos, and there are other examples of 2./JG 27 aircraft from the end of the war using red numbers instead of black.
