If you don’t mind a good cry, have a look at a copy of ‘War prizes’, where you’ll find the following Battle of Britain a/c – a Me110 scrapped in 1948, and a Ju87B fuselage that survived until 1946. A 1941 Ju88, scrapped around early 1948, a 1943 Fw 190 that dissapears in mid-1946, a Henshel 129 scrapped in late 1947, and a Me110G scrapped in 1952, and this is just a selection from the a/c that were in the UK.
We only have a He111 at Hendon because there was no room for it on the carrier taking other German a/c back to the USA. It ended up with the 56th FG. When they went back to the USA, it was flown to North Weald & abandoned there.
A lack of space at the storage MUs was a prime reason for many German a/c being scrapped, even some of those selected for future Museum display. I suppose the reason so many Me163s have survived is that they were so small & took up less space in storage.
Geoff.
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