- Name: Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter aircraft
- Manufacturer: Messerschmitt
- Role Fighter: aircraft and fighter-bomber
- First flight: 18 April 1941 with a piston engine and 18 July 1942 with jet engines
- Introduction: April 1944
- Retired:1945 Germany and 1951 Czechoslovakia
- Primary users: Luftwaffe and Czechoslovak Air Force
- Number built: 1,430
