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[[File:Bf_109E-3_USAAF_1942.jpg|thumb|298px|Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Werk Nr 1304 at Wright Field, Ohio (USA) on 14 May 1942<ref>U.S. Air Force photo via [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bf_109E-3_USAAF_1942.jpg Wikimedia]</ref>]]▼
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'''Werk Nr 1304''' was a [[:Category:Messerschmitt Bf 109|Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3]].▼
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|originaloperator=1/JG 76<ref name="AOTA 01 p61">{{Aircraft of the Aces No 1}} Page 61</ref>
|originalid=White 14<ref name="AOTA 01 p61"/>
|capturedate=22 November 1939
|captureplace=Elsass
|newoperator(s)=CEMA<br>RAE<br>AFDU<br>1426 Flight<br>Wright Field
|newid(s)=AE479 (RAE onwards)
|fate=SOC at Wright Field<br>3 November 1942
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=History=
The undamaged aircraft was repainted and was first taken to the French Armée de l'Air research facility, the Centra d'Essais du Materie Aerien or CEMA in Orlean-Bricy. There the French throughly evaluated the new Daimler-Benz engined Messerschmitt types constructional features, measured it's performance and made comperative tactical trials with their latest fighter aircraft, the Dewoitine D. 520 and Bloch MG 152, as well as one Spitfire Mark I received from the British.
The French lent the aircraft to the British in Amiens on 2 May 1940. The aircraft transferred from Chartes to Tangmere by Flight Officer Hilly Brown of No. 1 Squadron to Boscombe Down. Subsequently it was handed over to the [[:Category:Royal Aircraft Establishment|Royal Aircraft Establishment]] at Farborough. The British gave it
These initial trials on both sides of the Channel were equally dimissive in their tone and conclusions regarding the qualities of opposing fighter aircraft, emphasizing the general superiority of their own fighter designs - perhaps due to infamiliarity with enemy equipment. In contrast, the subsequent and far more detailed Handling and Manoeuvrability Tests report prepeared in September 1940 in contrast was far more positive and balanced in its assessment.{{#tag: ref| At around the same time, in the summer of 1940, the Germans also conducted their own tactical trials, using Bf 109E and Bf 110C aircraft against single captured Hurricane, Hawk and Spitfire aircraft at the Luftwaffe's E'-Stelle Rechlin.|group="N"}}
Between May 1940 and 24 July 1941 the plane performed 78 flights and was flown for a total of 49 hours at RAE and was then transferred to the [[:Category:Air Fighting Development Unit|Air Fighting Development Unit]] (AFDU) at Duxford by Wing Commander I.R. Campbell-Odre. The plane was returned to Farnborough on 20 November 1940 and the tail part was repaired with parts from Oblt. Franz von Werra's Bf 109E-4,
In January 1942 the aircraft was taken to bits and was shipped to the United States on freighter S.S. Dramesford on 7 April 1942. After its arrival to Wright Airfield in the U.S.A. in May 1942, the aircraft was damaged again at Wright Field on 3 November 1942 and was struck off, never flying again.<ref>http://kurfurst.org/Tactical_trials/109E_UKtrials/Morgan.html</ref>
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