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    Airframe Family: Messerschmitt Bf-108 Taifun / N-1000 Pingouin
    Latest Model:N-1002 Pingouin II
    Construction Number:103 {2}
    Last Civil Registration:N108S
    Compressed ID:SNCAN N-1002 cn 103 cr N108S
    Latest Owner or Location:Vintage Tailwheel Llc, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    June 1944

    Constructed as a N-1002 by SNCAN at Meulte and Les Mureaux.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe.

    Crashed.

    1945

    Repair completed.
    In France.

    June 1945

    The aircraft was shot down over Belgium, where it was captured there by the Allies.

    1961

    To unknown owner with c/r OO-NET.

    After 1961


    Photographer: Hugo Teugels - Aviation Society Antwerp
    Notes: At Grimbergen Airfield Airport, Grimbergen, Belgium

    To Central Armoury Museum with new c/r OO-RLR.

    From Circa 24 September 1973 to 16 March 1989

    To unknown owner with c/r N108H (1002, 103).

    1984

    Heavily modified by Piper Aircraft Ltd in Florida and was fitted with a 300 hp Lycoming IO-540 flat six in an entirely new nose, propane machine guns in the wings and nose and a new canopy in an attempt to configure it to resemble a Bf 109. Its engine came from a pre-production test bed Piper Malibu.

    After March 1986


    Photographer: John Hevesi
    Notes: At Space Coast Regional Airport in Florida

    16 March 1989

    Civil registration, N108H, cancelled.

    23 March 1989

    To Claus van der Walt, South Africa with new c/r ZS-WFI.

    29 March 1996

    To unknown owner with c/r ZK-WFI.

    4 August 1997

    To In Touch Travel Limited, Papakura keeping c/r ZK-WFI.
    Markings added: ZK+WFI

    Based at Classic Flyers Museum, Tauranga Airport, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, North Island.
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    November 2015


    Photographer: Peter Mole
    Notes: At Tauranga, North Island, New Zealand

    5 March 2025

    To Vintage Tailwheel Llc, Wilmington, DE with new c/r N108S.
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     Civil Aircraft Register of the World by Pascal Brugier
    Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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