The Museum would like to hear from anyone who was at the Downsview site in the 1950's who may know the exact location of the Me262 Wn.500210
February 02, 2000 04:55:21 PM

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Me 262A-2a Sturmvogel

Converted from it's fighter configuration to that of s bomber as a result of Hitler's direct orders,the 262A-2a carried a bombload of 100Kg (two 500Kg bombs or one 1000kg) and was armed with two MK108 30mm cannon.

Powered by two 8.83 Kn Junkers Jumo 004B turbojets (sea level) the 262A-2a was capable of approximately 450 mph which was 100 mph slower than the Me 262A-1

Nov 26 1943
Hitler asks Willy Messerschmitt if the Me262 can be used as a bomber and Messerschmitt replies that it is possible.

April 15 1944
First flight of Me 262 Werke Number 130,005 it is the first Me 262 to be modified for fighter bomber testing.

June 1944
Twenty eight Me 262A-2a fighter bombers produced. Pilots from KG 51 begin conversion training on Me 262A2a at Lager Lechfeld.

Sept 1944
It is decided to use the Me 262 in the nightfighter role as the prop driven German nightfighters were unable to pursue the faster Mosquito pathfinders bombers,and nightfighters.Only jet aircraft with very high top speeds were able to intercept the rivetless aerodynamically smooth wooden aircraft.

Late Sept '44
Production priority switched from Me262A-2a 'Blitzbomber' back to fighter. By November 1944 fighters were being produced exclusively.

Me 262A-2a (W.N. 500210) "Yellow 17"

Manufactured at Obertraubling, Messerschmitt Gmbh
Found at Fassberg on June 9 1945. Flt. Lt. Arend flew it from Schleswig via Melsbroeck and Manston to Farnborough.

It was given Air ministry Number 52 and RAF Serial Number - VH 509.

From June 1945 till July 1946, underwent extensive tests at Brize-Norton and Sealand.

In August 1946 it went to Montreal aboard the ship "Manchester Shipper".

Evaluated at de Havilland Canada Plant in the late '40's, seen during the Korean War and photographed in 1951.

Cameron Logan scrapped an Me 262 in 1948 at his yard near Brantford Ontario, this aicraft may have been Me 262A-1a W.N. 111690 "White 5" The aircraft destroyed in a fire in Aylmer in 1949 was a Hurricane.

(Conversation with Cameron Logan 1998.)

Materials and Weights

Wings constructed of duralumin, underside of wing surface behind slats - 0.25 mm sheet steel
Slats mounted along leading edge of wing 1mm sheet steel.
Main spar -steel Rear spar - duralumin
Ailerons and Flaps - duralumin

Span : 12.51 m
Length : 10.605 M
Height : 3.85M

Airframe : (no flight controls, undercarriage, engines, tank system armament or armour) 1,676 Kg.
Equipped Weight : 4,404 Kg.
Takeoff Weight 6,977Kg

Compiled From

Me 262 Schwalbe,
by Seweryn Fleischer and Marek Rys AJ. Press, Gdansk Poland 1998

Messerschmitt Me 262 - Development - Testing - Production
by Willy Radinger & Walter Schick Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Altglen P.A. 1993

Me 262 - The Worlds First Turbojet Fighter (Der erste Turbinenjaeger der Welt)
by Heinrich Hecht Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Pennsylvania 1990

Luftwaffe's Last Days
by Fred L. Wolff Air Progress November-December 1965

By Mike McAllister

Toronto Aerospace Museum would be interested in hearing from anyone who was at the Downsview site in the 1950's who thinks that they may know the exact location of the Me262 Wn.500210

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