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90. Me 262 A-1a RAF serial VH509 arrived in crates at Montreal, Canada on 1 September 1946 aboard
SS Manchester Shipper. It was sent to RCAF Downsview (Toronto) for reassembly and this view shows the port side of the fuselage on the floor of the hangar.
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91. This starboard view of Me 262 A-1a VH509 on the floor of the Downsview hangar was probably taken in the autumn of 1946. At some time while in Britain this fuselage was oversprayed with a dark colour, even over the the British markings added in Germany and were subsequently partially remarked. However, certain details show through. The blue/red RVT bands of JG 7, the large RAF roundel typical of those applied at Schleswig, the edge of the original RAF fin flash and the original Red 1 outlined in white that was painted over the JG 7
wappen can be seen. If this is AM 52, it was possibly flown by Flight Lieutenant Pierre Arend from Schleswig to Twente and from Twente via Manston to RAE Farnborough in June 1945.
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92. A photo of the reassembled Me 262 A-1a VH509 in the Downsview hangar. Note that only the top surface of the engine nacelles were oversprayed in Britain.
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93. This photograph of the reassembled Me 262 A-1a (W.Nr. unknown to me) VH509 was taken at the RCAF Staff College, Toronto, Canada on 12 June 1948. The unique pattern of black and white on the rear of the port engine nacelle matches exactly that of the third aircraft in the line-up at Schleswig that can be seen in a photo (at a different angle from my post #84) found on page 515 of Andreas Zapf's
Mosquitos über Berlin, (2018), which is also a Red 1. This is almost certainly the same aircraft.