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The Junkers J 9 was the world's first all metal fighter. The type first flew late in 1917 and only one original survives in the Musee de l'Air at Le Bourget. Manfred Pflumm, the Director of this museum, was well known for building replica aircraft which are featured in museums across Germany.
The HQ issued new marking instructions for the Air Force Wings in 1944. They stipulated that the 1 st squadron were to use the red colour, the 2 nd blue and the 3 rd yellow. This instruction is still in force. The starboard wing is painted white on the underside – the port wing black.
For easier identification of own aircraft, fighter planes carried an orange-yellow stripe on the leading edge of the wing (length about 1/3 wingspan), which was even adopted by some Sentais with multi-engine aircraft.
The "twin-three" marking is in white outlined red and the aircraft has a wide white fuselage band, also outlined in red. This aircraft is illustrated in colour in Model Art 395 "Camouflage & Markings of Type 1 Fighter Hayabusa" (page 11) together with other 33rd Sentai examples.
22 lis 2020 · While the J7 seemed to be an adequate aircraft, the improvements on the J9 were not satisfying the IDFLIEG pilots. Therefore IDFLIEG stated, that metal aircraft are usefull for combat- and probably navy aircraft, but not for fighter aircraft.
14 cze 2017 · A random an example of Otto Bertram's rudder markings (III/JG2) from October 1940 shows white victory bars with black lines around the edges and the dates & places painited within the bars which are topped by a French or British roundel to denote nationality of the enemy aircraft.
This J 9 flew with F 8 at Barkaby in Stockholm in 1940. Three years after the end of WWII it was transferred to F 3 Malmen and used as a reconnaissance aircraft. After one year it was decomissioned and earmarked for preservation.
