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Old 29th June 2022, 12:20
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Re: Some enlarged and 'tweaked' known photos of Me 262s

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1018

183. This photo shows some unusual markings for a 110xxx Series aircraft administered by the Augsburg consortium. As seen with W.Nr. 111685 in the Hofoldinger Forest, instead of a black hakenkreuz with a white surround, this one has the simple black version of the 500xxx Series of the Regensburg administration with the entire werknummer ahead of the lowest point of the hakenkreuz. However, in this case, the werknummer is also found on both sides of the tail fin, not just the port side. Most noteworthy, moreover, is the simple black balkenkreuz on the sides of the rear fuselage and the undersides of the wings of a fully-camouflaged Me 262. This is distinctive also to to Me 262 A-1a 110950 white "10+S" found at an unknown waldwerk and yellow "3+S" of 9./KG(J) 6 found at Saaz/Zatec [see pp. 152-153 of Brown, etal., Messerschmitt Me 262s of KG & KG(J) units, (JaPo, 2021)]. Yellow "3+S" is the only Me 262 with an "S" warning not to exceed 800 Km/h I have seen with a tactical fighter numeral on the rear fuselage.

There is another fully-camouflaged Me 262 with black balkenkreuze but without the "S" designation discussed in thread #43198 as perhaps coded TS+MB. This would make it a discarded Me 262 being used as a static trainer at the Technical School at Schleissheim. If my speculation as to this werknummer series is correct, then the quality of these Me 262s produced at REIMAHG/Kahla may have been inferior.

The W.Nr. 110956, seen here, already has a replaced nose assembly.

Last edited by Karoband; 29th June 2022 at 23:05. Reason: correcting error of information
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