This Messerschmitt Bf-109G-14/AS white 13, 13/JG53, flown by Uffz. Herbert Maxis, took part in the operation Bodenplatte on 1st January 1945. It was shot down when it attacked an American motorized column. The pilot crash-landed close to Felsberg village in Saarland and was subsequently killed under unclear circumstances. The aircraft wreck was left at the place and buried. It was rediscovered in 1988 and gradually restored. The Slovak National Museum acquired the partially reconstructed airframe in 2012.
