"Kindsvater
Remembers" The Luftwaffe JG 27 Squadron

    Kindsvater, Proficient Pilot,
Craftsman, Machinist, and a German Historian have been working on the
restoration of his historic Me-109-C4K for eleven years. He has
accomplished this feat for the most part by himself, with some support
from a few friends and especially the 376 EAA Group in near by Fresno,
California. Harold along with his wife Linda lives comfortably in the
country near Clovis, California. They have a lovely home that overlooks
Harold’s hangar and small dirt airstrip (about 2000 ft). His hangar
contains a machine shop where he also manufactures propellers for
highspeed boats of all sizes. Harold also owns and flies his Me-108 Taifun, another very
rare airplane he also had restored. When he is not busy restor ing or
flying one of his aircraft, he flies a club (California Warbirds loc)
owned P-51D "Strawboss #2" based at the Hollister Airport in
California. Harold also owns and flies a Beach Bonanza, when he has
time. Harold keeps very busy and he loves to fly. 
     Back in the 1960s Connie
Edwards of Texas was lured to England to help support the filming of the
movie " The Battle of Britain.” His role was
to bring some of the aircraft to flying status and maintain all aircraft
until filming was completed. After the film was completed Mr. Edwards
obtained one of the Messerschmitt’s used in the film, Red #5 which was
later traded to the CAF in Texas. In the late 1980s the CAF traded it to
Harold Kindsvater for a German Storch
that had also been restored by Harold.
     Harold wanted to finish his
Me l09-C4K in the paint scheme and markings of the Luftwaffe JG 27
squadron that had flown this type of aircraft in the Mediteranean and
North Africa. Being a German Historian he had manuals, books, and . . . .