JG 54 Green Hearts (Pilot Signed)

L/E of 950 & 50 Artist Proofs
S/N by the Artist & 6(Six) Leading Luftwaffe Pilots
Image Size:19 1/2" X 27"
Paper Size:22 3/4" X 30"

Plane Type: Bf 109 F-4

Major Hannes Trautloft in his Bf 109 F-4 leads a flight of JG 54 Green Hearts aircraft over Rijelbitzy Airfield in Russia, summer 1942. Of the several known Messerschmitt Bf l09's used by Hannes Trautloft, this F-4 is the best photo documented machine. Color photos exist of an earlier F-2 with the all-yellow cowling and the single command chevron that he used during 1941. This F-4 flown by Trautloft during the Summer of 1942, features the armored windshield, the double command chevron with a short pointed bar and a long bar behind the cross. The large Green Heart emblem has a different arrangement of the Gruppen badges than other Trautloft aircraft. The white spinner has a 1/3 segment in black/green with 2 white rings. JG 54 was known for its non- standard camouflage schemes. This F-4 appears to have been painted in black-green/dark- green finish with yellow under cowling and under wing tips but does not have a yellow fuselage band.


Personally autographed by the Artist and:
-General Hannes Trautloft, the father of the JG 54 Green Hearts
-Hans Ekkehard Bob, Staffelkapitän 9./JG 54
-Franz Eisenach, Staffelkapitän 3./JG 54
-Dietrich Hrabak, Kommodore JG 54
-Fritz Tegtmeier l./JG 54 later Staffelkapitän 3./JG 54
-Gerhard Thyben, Staffelkapitän 7./JG 54.



PLANE JUNKIE - JG 54 Green Hearts by Jerry Crandall (Bf 109 F-4)