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77. Wollenweber, on p. 138, identifies the He 162 A-1 beside "Yellow 4" as W.Nr. 310003, "Yellow 5" and on p. 22 of his book, Franks concurs. In this poor cropping of the line-up on the right side, the yellow "5" can just be made out. The gunport has black surround and the dark upper camo extends out to the nose tip which is typical for the A-1 310xxx
werknummer series. Curiously, the tarp has been removed from the cockpit canopy of this particular aircraft.
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78. Again, a poor cropping from the opposite angle, the port side of "Yellow 5" shows the bare canopy and the upper camo extending to the nose tip.
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79. This photo shows the fuselages of He 162 A-1s, W.Nr. 310003 "Yellow 5" and W.Nr. 310005 "Red 7" without wing or tail modules on flatbed railway carriages on their way to the
Armée de l'Air facility at Nantenne, France in February 1946.
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80. This cropping of the above photo shows the unusual
wappen of a combination, left to right, of the "Devil in the Clouds" of
I. Gruppe, the "Lion of Danzig" of
3. Staffel and the "Winged '1' " of the
Geschwader. As an exception to the rule, this yellow numeral has a black surround.
Franks made this comment in a caption on p. 22: "This airframe was never rebuilt to fly, being one of the A-1 series airframes used for spares to keep the A-2s flying [in France]. It is presumed to have been scrapped.
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81. This photo of the line-up on the right side shows that the fourteenth He 162 next to "Yellow 5" has nose rings starting with a black cap.
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82. This poor cropping shows a "Yellow 21" with white surround and the nose rings of a
Geschwaderstab aircraft. It has the characteristics of a later manufactured A-2. The muzzle of the MG 131/20 cannon can be seen protruding from the gunport which has gunpowder residue in front of it. Unlike W.Nr. 120015 "Yellow 21" which has a high camo demarcation, this He 162 has the camo pattern of the later 120xxx series. Note the hark upper camo on top of the nose and under the cockpit canopy extending back to a point under the wing.
Wollenweber, p. 138, mistakenly identifies this fourteenth airframe with nose rings as an A-1, "White 21", W.Nr. 310021. Franks, also, identifies it as "White 21" allocated Air Ministry number "58", but correctly gives the
werknummer as 120221 on p. 21 of his book. Phil Butler, in his
War Prizes, (Crecy edition, 2022), has identified "AM58" as, 'Arrived at Farnborough via the 'Return Ferry Service' o 16th June 1945. It was allocated RAF serial VH526 on 19th June 1945, but there is no record of this aircraft being flown at RAE. The aircraft was used as a source of spares for other flyable He 162s and was in the scrap area by 15 December 1946."
I have yet to see another photo of W.Nr. 120221.