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RE: What happened to the ME-262 from the U-234?
Posted by:
Mike...Z
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Date: January 04, 2001 04:58AM
<HTML>From the smithsonian webpage::::
The museum’s aircraft was captured by a special U.S.A.A.F. team led by Col. (later Maj. Gen.) Harold M. Watson, at Lechfeld, Germany. which at the war’s end was a principal experimental and training base of the Luftwaffe. Watson directed Operation Lusty, which involved seizing the most advanced German aircraft and flying them back to France where they could be shipped to the United States for testing.
The museum’s aircraft. a Messerschmitt Me 262A-la, was flown to Cherbourg, where it was placed on an aircraft carrier for shipment to the United States. It was put into flying condition at Newark, New Jersey, and flown, with a single stop at Pittsburgh, to Freeman Field, Indiana. where it received the test number FE-111.
At some time during the testing process, the standard fighter nose of FE-111 was changed for the reconnaissance nose of its sister ship, FE-4012, a Messerschmitt Me 262A-la/U3. This aircraft was sent to the Hughes Aircraft Company for rebuilding and for comparison with the Lockheed XP-80, while FE-111 was sent to Park Ridge, Illinois, for storage. It was brought to the Silver Hill Facility in 1950, and restoration work began in 1978.
MIke
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The museum’s aircraft was captured by a special U.S.A.A.F. team led by Col. (later Maj. Gen.) Harold M. Watson, at Lechfeld, Germany. which at the war’s end was a principal experimental and training base of the Luftwaffe. Watson directed Operation Lusty, which involved seizing the most advanced German aircraft and flying them back to France where they could be shipped to the United States for testing.
The museum’s aircraft. a Messerschmitt Me 262A-la, was flown to Cherbourg, where it was placed on an aircraft carrier for shipment to the United States. It was put into flying condition at Newark, New Jersey, and flown, with a single stop at Pittsburgh, to Freeman Field, Indiana. where it received the test number FE-111.
At some time during the testing process, the standard fighter nose of FE-111 was changed for the reconnaissance nose of its sister ship, FE-4012, a Messerschmitt Me 262A-la/U3. This aircraft was sent to the Hughes Aircraft Company for rebuilding and for comparison with the Lockheed XP-80, while FE-111 was sent to Park Ridge, Illinois, for storage. It was brought to the Silver Hill Facility in 1950, and restoration work began in 1978.
MIke
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