about Nowotny's 262 ...

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Originally Posted by Dan O'Connell

The Me 262's with the yellow band, ie White 4, 170061 were with III./EJG 2. There is no photo evidence of Nowotny's aircraft. It is only known that it was white 8, 110400.
Dan O'Connell
Messerschmitt Me 262- The Production Log 1941-1945

oK. but some pics show 262s with a yellow band, and claim either "erprobungskommando 262", "kommando Nowotny" or "III/EJG2".
This one for example is labelled "erprobungskommando 262" :

and the "white 10" W Nr 170041, with a yellow band, is supposed to having been part of the three units ... in fact every picture I know labelled "erprobungskommando 262" seems to show planes with this yellow band ... thus leading to the following question : if only planes from III/EJG2 had the bands, how did the planes from the erprobungskommando looked like ?

Of course some 262s from Nowotny's kommando do NOT have the band (Schall's for example) but is it possible that some of them kept previous markings and camo ?
Thanks for your help.