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    Airframe Family: Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet / J8M Shusui / MXY
    Latest Model:Me-163B-1 Komet
    Last Military Serial:191660 Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:191660
    Compressed ID:Messerschmitt Me-163B-1 sn 191660 L...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum, Paine Field, Everett, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Me-163B-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n 191660.


    Photographer: Unknown

    June 2008

    To Flying Heritage Collection/Paul Allen, Paine Field, Everett, WA.
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    1 July 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo - displayed in Paul Allens Warbirds - Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field, Everett

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    To Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum, Paine Field, Everett, WA.
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    8 October 2019


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Everett-Paine Field, Washington, U.S.A.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
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