Sabre Mk. 6 Luftwaffe serial numbers?

Prior to Jan 1968 all West German Air Force aircraft had no ‘permanent’ registration apart from the C/no or a previous military number. The ‘identity’ worn on the fuselage either side of the national insignia reflected the unit (two letters) and an identity within the unit (three numbers). Only a handful of Sabres were renumbered in 1968 into the new sequence.

Main reference I know of is Paul Jackson’s “German Military Aviation 1956-1976”, pub. by Midland Counties Publications, 1976. He lists by c/no: 75 Canadair CL-13B/F-86E/Sabre 5; 225 Canadair CL-13B/F-86E/Sabre 6 and 88 Fiat F-86K Sabres. By no means not all ‘identies’ are tied to a c/no, but a good number are listed. I have a copy, PM me if you wish to delve deeper into this source.

There may well be specialist books on the Sabre in WGAF service too.

The Sabre you quote, the first Sabre 6 aquired from new from Montreal, with airframe construction number identity ‘S6-1591’, first became serial YA+005 with ESt61 (military test unit Erprobungsstelle 61 at Manching), subequently saw service with at least serial BB+161 of WS-10 (Waffenschule 10 a flying training unit at Oldenburg), then in 1968 permanent serial 01+01 (01+ sequence allocated to test aircraft) with MBB and subsequently preserved at Manching. The majority of the Sabre 6s were operated with the identity codes BB+ WS-10, JA+ JG71 (Jagdgeschwader 71 at Ahlhorn), JB+ JG72 (at Leck), JC+ JG73 (at Oldenburg), with a few using test/delivery codes in the KE+ sequence.