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Spitfire - Aircraft Profile - Supermarine : Spitfire

Spitfire

Manufacturer : Supermarine
Number Built : 20351
Production Began : 1936
Retired : 1948
Type : Fighter

Royal Air Force fighter aircraft, maximum speed for mark I Supermarine Spitfire, 362mph up to The Seafire 47 with a top speed of 452mph. maximum ceiling for Mk I 34,000feet up to 44,500 for the mark XIV. Maximum range for MK I 575 miles . up to 1475 miles for the Seafire 47. Armament for the various Marks of Spitfire. for MK I, and II . eight fixed .303 browning Machine guns, for MKs V-IX and XVI two 20mm Hispano cannons and four .303 browning machine guns. and on later Marks, six to eight Rockets under the wings or a maximum bomb load of 1,000 lbs. Designed by R J Mitchell, The proto type Spitfire first flew on the 5th March 1936. and entered service with the Royal Air Force in August 1938, with 19 squadron based and RAF Duxford. by the outbreak of World war two, there were twelve squadrons with a total of 187 spitfires, with another 83 in store. Between 1939 and 1945, a large variety of modifications and developments produced a variety of MK,s from I to XVI. The mark II came into service in late 1940, and in March 1941, the Mk,V came into service. To counter the Improvements in fighters of the Luftwaffe especially the FW190, the MK,XII was introduced with its Griffin engine. The Fleet Air Arm used the Mk,I and II and were named Seafires. By the end of production in 1948 a total of 20,351 spitfires had been made and 2408 Seafires. The most produced variant was the Spitfire Mark V, with a total of 6479 spitfires produced. The Royal Air Force kept Spitfires in front line use until April 1954.

Spitfire

Top Aces for : Spitfire
A list of all Aces from our database who are known to have flown this aircraft.
NameVictories
Johnnie Johnson36.91
Paddy Finucane32.00
Robert Stanford-Tuck29.00
James Lacey28.00
Neville Duke28.00
Eric Lock26.50
Douglas Bader23.00
Don Kingaby23.00
Harbourne Stephen22.50
Archie McKellar21.00
James Rankin21.00
Raymond Harries20.00
John Cunningham20.00
Ronald Berry16.00
Ian Gleed15.00
Peter Brothers15.00
Bob Doe15.00
John Freeborn13.50
Ben Bennions11.00
Hugh Dundas11.00
George Unwin10.00
Clive Caldwell28.50
Tony Gaze12.50
Bobby Gibbes10.50
Colin Gray27.50
Alan Deere22.00
Evan Mackie21.50
Brian Carbury15.50
John Rae13.00
Keith Lawrence5.00
George Beurling31.50
James Edwards16.50
Roderick Smith13.20
Richard Audet10.50
Albert Houle10.00
James Lindsay7.00
Adolf Malam35.00
Marmaduke Pattle34.00
Pierre Closterman26.00
Francis Gabreski28.00
Lance Wade25.00
Dominic Gentile19.83
Duane Beeson19.33
James Varnell17.00
Donald Blakeslee15.50
James Goodson15.00
Samuel Brown15.00
Archie Donahue14.00
Robert Curtis14.00
Claude Weaver13.50
George Carpenter13.33
James Brooks13.00
John Lynch13.00
David Fairbanks12.50
Howard Hively12.00
Pierce McKennon12.00
James Clark11.50
Charles McCorkle11.00
John Lawler11.00
Leland Molland11.00
Norman McDonald11.00
Robert Goebel11.00
Michael Gladych10.00
Spiros Pisanos10.00
Sylvan Feld9.00
Arthur Johnson8.50
Carroll McColpin8.00
Dale Shafer8.00
James Tyler8.00
MacArthur Powers7.50
Arnold Vinson7.00
Carl Payne7.00
Chesley Peterson7.00
Daniel Zoerb7.00
Frank Hill7.00
Gregory Daymond7.00
John Curry7.00
Murry McLaughlin7.00
Reade Tilley7.00
Ripley Jones7.00
Richard Hurd6.09
Fred Ohr6.00
Henry Mills6.00
James Peck6.00
J Collinsworth6.00
Lewis Chick6.00
Merriwell Vineyard6.00
Raymond Care6.00
Raymond Harmeyer6.00
Roy Evans6.00
William Dillard6.00
William Dunn6.00
Frederick Trafton5.50
Joseph Lynch5.50
Oscar Coen5.50
Harrison Thyng5.00
Arthur Cleaveland5.00
Charles Fischette5.00
David Wilhelm5.00
Edward Gimbel5.00
George Loving5.00
Jackson Mahon5.00
James Peck5.00
James Empey5.00
John White5.00
Kenneth Smith5.00
Richard Faxon5.00
Richard Alexander5.00
Selden Edner5.00
Virgil Fields5.00
Francis Dawson-Paul7.50
D Pieri6.00
V Cabas5.00
P Johnson5.00
H Zary5.00
J Carey4.50
R Davenport4.50
M Fletcher4.50
J Butler4.50
W Daley2.50
J Adams4.50
J Ainley8.00
J Aitken4.50
R Baker16.50
R Burnett5.00
J Jacobs4.50
M McPharlin3.00
J Thorne5.00
V Wynn4.00
V France4.50
Agorastos Plagis16.00
John Bisdee8.00
Bob Foster7.00
Tom Neil14.00
Basil Stapleton6.00
Walter Lawson6.00
Paul Farnes8.00
Wallace Cunningham8.00
Wilf Sizer7.00
W Duncan-Smith17.00
Alan Page12.50


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