eBay: Messerschmitt Me262

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Watsons Whizzers No. 888, Staff Sergeant Eugene Freiburger of the 54th Air Disarmament Squadron named the plane "Dennis", after his son. These markings remained on the jet until it arrived in Melun, France, where Lt James (Ken) Holt re-christened it "Ginny H". named "Dennis", and then "Ginny H", it was flown by Lt James K. Holt. "Yellow 7" was shipped to the USA on HMS Reaper, with inventory control No. 29. "Yellow 7" arrived at Wright Field in August 1945, and was subsequently moved to Freeman Field, Indiana, where it remained until May 1946. At Freeman Field it was allocated Foreign Equipment number FE-111, and later T-2-111. As Watson's Whizzers No. 444 was being prepared for a series of classified flight tests, it's reconnaissance-modified nose section was exchanged for No. 888's more streamlined fighter version. This modification took place before the plane was moved to the 803rd Special Depot storage facility at Park Ridge, Illinois in July 1946, when the jet entered long-term storage. In 1950, it was moved again, this time to the National Air Museum facility (now the Garber Facility) at Silver Hill, Maryland. In 1978, the plane was brought out of storage and fully restored, with the modified nose section returned to its original A-1 fighter configuration. "Yellow 7" is now on display in the National Air & Space Museum (NASM), on the Mall in Washington, D.C. (USAAF Photos)

German Warplane survivors, 1939-1945: Messerschmitt Me 262

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This photo of V056 was in its stage 2 test configuration would you conclude that the tail plane is painted similarly on both sides or could it have been painted a solid colour when they added tufts of wool to test aerodynamic effects.
 

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