Me-262A-1a Galland "White 3" (W.Nr. 500071) 1:72 New tool 2026
This Me 262 was assembled in late March 1945 at the Messerschmitt-Obertraubling plant and assigned to III./JG 7.
On 25 April 1945, it took off from the Munich area, flown by 23-year-old Hans Guido Mutke from Neisse (Nysa). Due to a lack of fuel, the aircraft made an emergency landing at the neutral Zurich-Dubendorf airfield, where it was interned.
The aircraft was returned to Germany in 1957 and is now on display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, preserved as one of the best surviving Me 262 examples.
Mutke is also associated with another remarkable flight" on 9 April 1945, during a steep dive, he may have briefly exceeded the speed of sound. If so, he would have been the first pilot to survive a supersonic flight.
The Me 262 A-1a 1/72 kit will include three marking options: two wartime and one post-war scheme.Â
