Despite this poor record, the difficulties with the He-162 appear mostly to have been due to the fact that was rushed into production, not that it was an inherently bad design. Erprobungskommando 162 fighters, which had been passed on to an operational unit under Adolf Galland a few weeks earlier, were all destroyed by their crews to keep the jets from falling into Allied hands. One British pilot who evaluated the He-162 also praised it, though a second British pilot was killed in November 1945 during an air display at Farnborough when one of the tailplanes broke off, sending the fighter into the ground. It was fortunate for the Allies that the He-162 was much too late to be anything more than a footnote to the history of the air war over Europe, but a certain curiosity remains over what it might have been able to do had events been more favorable to it. A handful of Volksjaegers still exist as static displays in museums around the world.
None remain flying.
Given that the lack of hardened alloys meant that German jet engines sometimes had to be scrapped after as little as ten hours of flight operations, it is unlikely one of the original He-162s will ever fly again. There were a number of other He-162 variants that never flew and were for the most part only paper concepts. As these aircraft never really existed, information on them is very sketchy and assigning designations to them a dubious exercise. Twin Argus pulsejet engines. Single Argus pulsejet engines.