TP13c Flugkapitan Wendelin Trenkle Personally Signed by Wendelin Trenkle

21st Mar 1981 BFPS 6343 Flug Kapitan W Trenkel Chief Pilot for Messerschmitt Special Signed by FlugKapitan W Trenkle Test Pilot 9 000 with MTT and about 5 000 with Me 109 plus others Me 108 210 410 262 and 323 four & Six engined glider During the 1930’s Trenkle was a flying instructor with the Luftwaffe and in 1937 he became Chief Test Pilot of the Messerschmitt-Zwigweks where he test flew the first ME-108 to be produced and went on during WW11 to test fly the ME-109 and ME-262. In 1945 he claimed to have shot down a P-38 Lightning. It was during this test flying service that in 1942 Trenkle was granted the title of Flugkapitan at the age of 30 the youngest age at which this honour was ever granted. Certified Copy No 821 of 992 by Hans Rossbach & F Waters.