Production
Total Bf 109 production was 33,984 units; Wartime production (September 1939 to May 1945) was 30,573 units. Fighter production totalled 47% of all German aircraft production, and the Bf 109 accounted for 57% of all German fighter types produced. A total of 2,193 Bf 109 A–E were built prewar, from 1936 to August 1939.
Some 865 Bf 109G derivatives were manufactured postwar under licence as Czechoslovakian-built Avia S-99 & S-199s, with the production ending in 1948. Production of the Spanish-built Hispano Aviación HA-1109 and HA-1112 Buchons ended in 1958.
New production Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters, 1936–1945.
Factory, location | Up to 1939 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945* | Totals* |
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Messerschmitt, Regensburg | 203 | 486 | 2,164 | 6,329 | 1,241 | 10,423 | |||
Arado, Warnemünde | 370 | 370 | |||||||
Erla, Leipzig | 683 | 875 | 2,015 | 4,472 | 1,018 | 9,063 | |||
Fieseler, Kassel | 155 | 155 | |||||||
W.N.F., Wiener Neustadt | 836 | 1,297 | 2,200 | 3,081 | 541 | 7,892 | |||
Győri Vagon- és Gépgyár, Győr | 39 | 270 | 309 | ||||||
Ago, Oschersleben | 381 | 381 | |||||||
Totals | 1,860 | 1,540 | 1,868 | 2,628 | 2,658 | 6,418 | 14,152 | 2,800 | 33,984 |
* Production up to end of March 1945 only.
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