They do have a good number of unique German aircraft… and many were ‘gifted’ to them by the British as duplicates or not that interesting.

iirc the Ta152 is c/n1500003 Red ‘4’ which was at the RAE in 1945 before becoming FE-112. ‘Our’ Ta152, c/n 150168 AM11, was scrapped.

As for He219’s, there were at least five operated by the RAF – not sure if the Smithsonian one was one.

So… -ve we didn’t keep them. +ve they probably wouldn’t have survived if we did. And the Smithsonian do a very good job of the restoration.

🙁 shame!

pic from wikipedia