Messerschmitt Me 209 (second design)

The second Me 209 design was a late World War II attempt by Willy Messerschmitt to create an enhanced version of Luftwaffe's primary fighter aircraft, the Bf 109. The Me 209, despite its designation, bore no relationship to the earlier Me 209.

The RLM's 8-209 airframe number assigned to Messerschmitt, for its pair of post-July 1938 designation Me 209 airframes, was used for two projects during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The first Me 209 was a single-engine air speed record plane for which little consideration was given to adaptation for combat.