Me262B-1a/U1, WNr.110305 ‘Red 8’

Several two-seat trainer variants of the Me262, the Me262B-1a, had been adapted through the Umrüst-Bausatz 1 factory refit package as night fighters, complete with on-board FuG218 Neptun high-VHF band radar, using Hirschgeweih (“stag’s antlers”) antennae with a set of shorter dipole elements than the Lichtenstein SN-2 had used, as the Me262B-1a/U1 version. Serving with 10./NG11, near Berlin, these few aircraft (alongside several single-seat examples) accounted for most of the 13 Mosquitoes lost over Berlin in the first three months of 1945. Wiki

I have been permitted to take photographs at the Headcorn museum in the past and found the staff to be very helpful and welcoming. I just had a bit of common courtesy and asked first. It goes a long way…. 😉

Thanks to Steve Sheflin over on LEMB:

Ju88A-4, WNr.140539, Burnt out at Fl.Pl. Ahlhorn, 45/05/12, source CEA269 (Crashed Enemy Aircraft report #269).

Good show Andy, keep it up. 🙂

Possible main plate locations? different locations on both of these probably due to different factories having produced the airframes.

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Source: Dornier 17 In Focus, By Chris Goss, Red Kite.

Do you think that’s RLM65 or RLM02 on the exterior side? Looks slightly 02 ‘ish’ to be 65? Or do you think the RLM 65 could have changed over the years to what we are seeing in the pics? If it’s RLM02 it could have come from an area where the upper surface colours were painted. Upper wings perhaps? 🙂

Although there is a reasonably strong possibility that this is WNr.1160 (5K+AR). Do we know what the other alternative candidates are?

Did you put in one to many words there Clint : “Which one is Andy?”😀

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