I confess I have second thoughts about photo 221 being the same one as shown/talked about under 222 - 224.
I can't see any sign of the digits 26 here meaning that could only have been done after repairs.
While the accident may not have been too severe as such it would have ment changing both engines,
since they must have ingested quite a bit of debris.
No idea how long such repairs would have taken, but with Germany in a state of more or less "free fall",
it wasn't done "in a couple of hours". I also doubt they had two stray engines just laying around....
With Brandis being captured on 17 April, it ment they had some two weeks to fix it. Possible?
If we then play with the thought the aircraft is WNr 500251 and assigned to NAGr 6 already in March it means
no digits were added up to its accident at Brandis 1 April but more or less done immediately after repairs.
Sounds odd since the further towards the collapse we get the less time staff would have had for such "trivia".
Is the exact date known when '26' (or WNr 500251) was captured at Lechfeldt? All I could get was early
May...
So convince me please....
Cheers
Stig