Speeddemon651 wrote:
Thanks again for posting.
Does anyone know how many original 262's are still left in the world ? Do the Russians still have any ?
I always hope that at some point a large amount of warbird purchases or trades with communist countries will take place in the future to recover as many WW2 aircraft as possible that are being neglected or are in storage. The P-47 sitting outside the Chinese air museum comes to mind first.
Looks like there are nine, plus two Avia S.92 post-war versions. None listed as being in Russia. More treasures will come out of Russia, but remember that Stalin issued orders to scrap nearly all captured aircraft to modernize the Soviet jet air force.
Also there are the five replicas constructed by the Stormbirds project.