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    Airframe Family: Horten Ho-II
    Latest Model:Ho-IIL
    Last Military Serial:T2-7 USAAF
    Construction Number:6
    Compressed ID:Horten Ho-IIL sn T2-7 USAAF cn 6
    Latest Owner or Location:Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin Technology Museum), Berlin, Berlin

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    Dates

    Event

    1937

    Constructed as a Ho-IIL.

    To unknown owner.
    Markings added: D-10-125

    1937


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: During the Rhon contest on the mountain Wasserkuppe, Germany.

    1944

    Used in the development of the Horten Ho-IX/229 twin-jet fighter-bomber. Most notably it was flown as a wind-tunnel substitute for the Ho-IX V-6, with its extended, pointed nose, dummy air-intakes and exhausts, and twin small fins.

    1945

    Captured by the American soldiers.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n FE-7.

    New serial number assigned: T2-7 USAAF

    1950

    To National Air and Space Museum, Washington D. C.

    To Museum fur Verkehr und Technik, Berlin, Germany.
    The NASM exchanged D-10-125 for complete restoration of three other Horten gliders.

    Circa 1994

    Restored.

    Placed on display with Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin Technology Museum), Berlin, Berlin.
    Before 1996 known as Museum fur Verkehr und Technik. In 2001 moved to current location.
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    8 September 2012


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Marked D-10-125 this plane looks like a bat at the Technikmuseum Berlin, Germany

    8 September 2018


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Deutsche Technikmuseum in Berlin, Germany.
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