Aeroplane / fighter, rocket

Description

Messerschmitt Me 163B-1a Komet, serial number 191659, a German fighter of 1944 powered by a Walter HWK 109-509A liquid-fuel rocket motor, and captured in May 1945

Museum reference

EF.2007.23

Collection

Aviation

Object name

Aeroplane / fighter, rocket

Production information

Messerschmitt, Aircraft manufacturer
Germany, Western Europe
Walter, Rocket motor maker

Date

1944

Associations

World War II

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Collection Story

On display

national museum of flight »
hangar 2