Heinkel He 162 upper wingcolour Mystery

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"The only explanation would be that:
1/ 120223 goes to the repair place cause of its broken wing tip and there give its right bleu fin to another plane which is among the five given to the French. >> if true and if it's the only element we have to say that 120223 came in France then 120223 perhaps never came in France >> need to check

2/ sometimes later, perhaps only after surrender, a new green fin was added to 120223"

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This would explain why, except from the two A-1 "red 7" and "yellow 5", we have four W.Nr. (120015, 120093, 120223 and 120231) for only three He 162.

Then the three flyable French one would have been:
N°1 = 120093 "unknown fuselage number"
N°2 = 120015 "white 22?" with right fin from 120223
N°3 = 120231 "white 6"

(N°1 and N°3 could have been inverted depends from which one show RATO attachement points on photos - And in any case if N°1 doesn't have RATO it can't be 120223...)

(120015 can't be white 21 since white 21 is pictured at Leck with a later camo than the one awaited for 120015, can't be white 1 since marking are not on the correct emplacement. And white 22 probably had JG1 emblem painted on the front fuselage same as white 21)