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[David E. Brown]

Hi Roland,

I agree that the aircraft in the photos is "Red 1". However, its camouflage and markings, and that of the other aircraft adjacent to it, “White 12”, indicate both aircraft are from the 1133xx series. Note that the werknummer was only applied to the base of the port side of the fin.

In the 26 April 1945 München-Riem Me 262 list, the following werknummern are indicated for seven (7) aircraft assigned to JV 44:
113331
113334
113337
113343
113344
113357
113365

In the second part of the list, aircraft undergoing "conversion" at the DHL facilities there include seven (7) others from this series:
113337
113338
113340
113354
113357
113359
113371

Two other aircraft are indicated (O’Connell, 2005) to have been discovered at Innsbruck-Hötting but interestingly are not listed on the Me 262 document: 113368 and 113369.

It is interesting that 113371 ended up at Innsbruck-Hötting, and two others - 113331 and 113357 - were also listed in the JV 44 section of the document. It is probable that they were with the unit and listed in error as still with DHL.

Based on the above, it would appear that both "Red 1" and "White 12" found at Innsbruck are from the 1133xxx werknummer series, and that the former is one of the aforementioned werknummers as listed for JV 44 aircraft.

Cheers,

David