One of the advanced aircraft brought to the US at the end of WWII, this rare two seat Me-262 was studied by the Navy. Given the bu 121448, it was struck off strength in 1947 and displayed outside with other axis aircraft at NAS Willow Grove, PA. Rescued from the elements in 1993, it was dis-assembled by The Me262 Project as a pattern for Me-262 replicas under an agreement with the Navy to return it fully restored. It went back on display at the Wings of Freedom Museum, NAS Willow Grove , PA in 2001 before transfer to the National Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola, FL in September 2010

Messerschmitt Me 262B-1a Werknr 110639 arrived at the National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Florida, USA on September 30, 2014. The only genuine two-seat trainer ME 262 in the world. After being captured at Schleswig in May 1945, this ME 262 was taken to the USA and test-flown at NAS Patuxent River. In 1993 the US Navy agreed to loan the machine to the Messerschmitt 262 Project in Everett, Washington, as a pattern aircraft for its flying replicas.

This priceless two-seater trainer version was captured intact in Northern Germany and after WWII sent to the Armament Test Division, NAS Patuxent River for tests and evaluation. Later she was used as the template for reverse engineering newbuild machines on the the 'Me-262 Project'. In return she was restored to this immaculate condition and, although the link to Naval aviation may be a little tenuous, I was more than thrilled to see her at the National Naval Aviation Museum.