Flugmuseum Messerschmitt, Aviation museum in Manching, Germany

Flugmuseum Messerschmitt is an aviation museum in Manching displaying original aircraft and replicas, including the M17, Me108, Me109, Me163, and Me262. The collection documents several decades of aircraft engineering with focus on design and development.

The collection began in the mid-1970s, when staff of Flugzeug-Union-Süd, a subsidiary of Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, built a flyable Bf 109 G-6 from a Hispano Aviación HA-1112 bought in the USA in 1975; a Daimler-Benz DB-605 engine followed from Sweden in 1978. The aircraft D-FMBB first flew on 23 April 1982, was destroyed in a takeoff accident at Neuburg/Donau and flew again on 23 June 1986 in Manching. The Willy-Messerschmitt-Halle was begun with a groundbreaking on 16 July 1997 and opened on 26 June 1998, the 100th birthday of Willy Messerschmitt.

The museum's name honours Willy Messerschmitt, and its exhibits also cover his Bamberg years, when his firm made prefabricated houses, sewing machines, irons and the Kabinenroller scooter-car. The Bf 109s on show are conversions of Spanish-built Hispano Aviación HA-1112 airframes, some fitted with Daimler-Benz DB-605 engines.

The collection is housed at the western end of the Airbus Defence and Space site in Manching, next to the Ingolstadt/Manching air base. The museum aims to keep its aircraft flyable, so individual machines may be away at air shows or at the Hangar 10 museum on Usedom, where the Bf 109 G-12 and the former D-FMBB are kept.

Eight functional Messerschmitt machines remain in flying condition, including modified Bf 109s equipped with Daimler-Benz engines. This flying fleet allows the museum to demonstrate aviation history rather than simply displaying it.