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    Airframe Family: Heinkel He-219 Uhu
    Latest Model:He-219A-2/R4 Uhu
    Last Military Serial:T2-614 USAAF
    Construction Number:290202
    Compressed ID:Heinkel He-219A-2/R4 sn T2-614 USAA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    1944

    Constructed as a He-219A-2/R4.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n 290202.

    By 1945

    Transferred to N J G 1 (1st Night Fighter Group), Grove, South Jutland, Denmark.

    16 June 1945

    To USAAF Intelligence Service, as part of Operation LUSTY (Luftwaffe Secret Technology) under Col. Harold E. Watson.

    June 1945

    Ferry flight.
    Flown to Cherbourg, France.

    1945

    Transported by ship.
    To USA on Royal Navy escort carrier, HMS Reaper.

    1945

    Reassembled.
    At Ford Field, Newark, NJ.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n FE-614.

    Circa 1945

    New serial number assigned: T2-614 USAAF
    T2 stood for the Office of Air Force Intelligence.

    Circa 1945

    Transferred to Freeman Field, IN.
    For test flying.

    1946

    Assigned to US Government Factory (ex Dodge Factory for C-54 Construction), Orchard Place Airport, Park ridge, IL for storage.
    Put into temporary storage.

    3 January 1949

    To Smithsonian National Air Museum.

    Circa February 1955

    To Smithsonian National Air Museum, Silver Hill, MD.
    Dismantled and crated.

    13 June 1998


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: At the Paul E. Garber facility In Suitland Maryland. Now closed to the public. Unrestored at this time

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
    View the Location Dossier

    11 August 2006


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: Udvar Hazy Facility. Restoration in progress.

    11 August 2006


    Photographer: Robert Abbott

    11 August 2006


    Photographer: Robert Abbott

    30 July 2011


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: Udvar Hazy Facility. Restoration in progress.

    30 July 2011


    Photographer: Robert Abbott

    9 September 2012


    Photographer: Rob Harvan
    Notes: Aircraft on display at NASM Udvar-Hazy Center.

    June 2013


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    June 2013


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    5 June 2016


    Photographer: Arjun Sarup
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
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    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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