According to Richard A Franks,
Air Frame Album 10: The Me 163 Komet, (Valiant, 2016), pp. 18-19; Phil Butler,
War Prizes, (Crecy, 2022), pp. 236, 239; and Joe Baugher in his online USAAF/USAF Serial Numbers, in 1945
five Me 163Bs were issued the "Foreign Equipment" numbers FE495, FE500, FE501, FE502 and FE503. All five were supposedly changed to T2-495, T2-500, T2-501, T2-502 and T2-503 in 1946.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1905
1. I have only found photos for
two of the above three-digit numerals. This photo shows FE495 being used as a recruiting tool at an exhibition of captured German aircraft in the United States.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1906
2. With extra large lettering in the tail, FE500 is seen with its Morane radio mast behind the cockpit.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1907
3. This photo is one of a number of bogus "FE500"s, with smaller lettering, no radio mast and a spurious
balkenkreuz. Note the bulbous air vent fairing on the tailpipe.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1911
4. Now "T-2-500", this Me 163B was tested in 1946 at Muroc, California. Note its Morane aerial.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1908
5. I have pictures of only
three Me 163Bs in their original markings after they arrived in the USA in the summer of 1945. This aircraft I will call "White 54". Note the missing long wing root fairing among other things.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1909
6. This one I will call "White 42". Note the missing long wing root fairing.
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1910
7. And this one is "191301". Note its Morane radio mast ... and the missing long wing root fairing.
I intend to show photographic evidence as to where these three aircraft came from and what happened to them.