なお、以下のところによれば、ホルスト・リッペルト氏の乗機は、Me-109とのことです。
http://www.ttc.org/200803151558.m2ffwom28748.htm
"Rippert said he had been flying a Messerschmitt Me-109 over the Mediterranean near Toulon on July 31, 1944, when he spotted Saint-Exupery's twin-tailed Lightning"