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Great shots all. Keep 'em coming! Proud to say I own one of those wheel and tires off this bird.
To be honest I don't know. There are far more capable people on this forum to answer that question. I do know that the original owner (not the LW!) bought a lot of the captured birds from USAAC as scrap metal.Is that all that's left of that one?
I can try. It's been a LONG time though.Do you know who bought it from the Army? Or can you find out? Always wanted to track down what happened to those unique pieces of scrap.
I doubt they would have brought in a third party to dismatle/scrap the aircraft.Yes, they are digging there, but have yet to hit the rumored gold mine. Was just wondering if an outside contractor was called in to scrap off site.
FE-500 Messerschmitt Me.163B-1a KometI doubt they would have brought in a third party to dismatle/scrap the aircraft.
But there wouldn't have been anything to salvage from the two Komets that were parted out so they were most likely crushed and discarded. However, since the dollies weren't permamently attached, they probably ended up in a junk pile along with other loose items and grabbed by someone before being hauled off to a dump.
Joe Baugher has a pretty good listing of the captured Axis aircraft that ended up at Wright, Freeman and Muroc.
Captured Axis Aircraft