Bidspirit auction | WW2 Luftwaffe Messerschmitt test pilot


WW2 Luftwaffe Messerschmitt test pilot Wendelin Trenkle signed cover 5 of 10. Rare Rossbach variety with four stamps and doubled with second Luftwaffe 1981 postmark. Chief Test Pilot at Messerschmitt in the key years from the development of the Me109 through to the end of the war and the Me262. He flew around 15,000 test flight hours across many types of Messerschmitt, about 5,000 of which were on the Me109. He died in 1998. Good condition Est.