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    Airframe Family: Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe / S-92
    Latest Model:Me-262A-1a/U3
    Last Military Serial:121442 USN
    Construction Number:501232
    Compressed ID:Messerschmitt Me-262A-1a/U3 sn 1214...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Me-262A-1a/U3.

    March 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe.

    March 1945

    Transferred to 9./III. KG (J) 6 [Kampfgeschwader (Bomber Wing) 6].

    8 May 1945

    Ferry flight.
    Flown from Prague-Rusin to Munchen-Riem by Oblt. Heinrich Haeffner, a pilot of 2./KG 51, where it was surrendered to US forces.

    15 May 1945

    Ferry flight.
    Flown by Messerschmitt test pilot Karl Baur to Lechfield, Germany, for processing with the USAAF 54th Air Disarmament Squadron.

    27 May 1945

    Air Technical Intelligence Project Officer accepted the aircraft at Lechfield.

    10 June 1945

    Ferry flight.
    Flown by 54th ADS to Cherbourg, France via St. Dizier and Melun.

    From 19 July 1945 to 31 July 1945

    Transported by ship.
    Shipped from Cherbourg, France to USA on Auxiliary Carrier HMS Reaper.

    Circa 1945

    Transported by ship.
    Barged to Newark Army Air Field, NJ for prepartion for flight to NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    October 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 121442.

    October 1945

    Transferred to Air Naval Test Center, Patuxent River, MD.

    From January 1946 to 29 January 1946

    Flew 10 hrs of test flights.

    31 January 1946

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    1952

    Abandoned.
    Abandoned in the Patuxent River NAS landfill.

    1957

    To United States Air Force Museum, Patterson Field (East Side), Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    1971

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    From 1976 to 1979

    Restored.
    Restored by the 96th Mobile Maintenance Squadron, Kelly AFB, TX. Marked as aircraft just off the production line.

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    17 May 2018


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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