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Spitfire
Manufacturer : Supermarine
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. | |
Name | Victories |
Johnnie Johnson | 36.91 |
Paddy Finucane | 32.00 |
Robert Stanford-Tuck | 29.00 |
James Lacey | 28.00 |
Neville Duke | 28.00 |
Eric Lock | 26.50 |
Douglas Bader | 23.00 |
Don Kingaby | 23.00 |
Harbourne Stephen | 22.50 |
Archie McKellar | 21.00 |
James Rankin | 21.00 |
Raymond Harries | 20.00 |
John Cunningham | 20.00 |
Ronald Berry | 16.00 |
Ian Gleed | 15.00 |
Peter Brothers | 15.00 |
Bob Doe | 15.00 |
John Freeborn | 13.50 |
Ben Bennions | 11.00 |
Hugh Dundas | 11.00 |
George Unwin | 10.00 |
Clive Caldwell | 28.50 |
Tony Gaze | 12.50 |
Bobby Gibbes | 10.50 |
Colin Gray | 27.50 |
Alan Deere | 22.00 |
Evan Mackie | 21.50 |
Brian Carbury | 15.50 |
John Rae | 13.00 |
Keith Lawrence | 5.00 |
George Beurling | 31.50 |
James Edwards | 16.50 |
Roderick Smith | 13.20 |
Richard Audet | 10.50 |
Albert Houle | 10.00 |
James Lindsay | 7.00 |
Adolf Malam | 35.00 |
Marmaduke Pattle | 34.00 |
Pierre Closterman | 26.00 |
Francis Gabreski | 28.00 |
Lance Wade | 25.00 |
Dominic Gentile | 19.83 |
Duane Beeson | 19.33 |
James Varnell | 17.00 |
Donald Blakeslee | 15.50 |
James Goodson | 15.00 |
Samuel Brown | 15.00 |
Archie Donahue | 14.00 |
Robert Curtis | 14.00 |
Claude Weaver | 13.50 |
George Carpenter | 13.33 |
James Brooks | 13.00 |
John Lynch | 13.00 |
David Fairbanks | 12.50 |
Howard Hively | 12.00 |
Pierce McKennon | 12.00 |
James Clark | 11.50 |
Charles McCorkle | 11.00 |
John Lawler | 11.00 |
Leland Molland | 11.00 |
Norman McDonald | 11.00 |
Robert Goebel | 11.00 |
Michael Gladych | 10.00 |
Spiros Pisanos | 10.00 |
Sylvan Feld | 9.00 |
Arthur Johnson | 8.50 |
Carroll McColpin | 8.00 |
Dale Shafer | 8.00 |
James Tyler | 8.00 |
MacArthur Powers | 7.50 |
Arnold Vinson | 7.00 |
Carl Payne | 7.00 |
Chesley Peterson | 7.00 |
Daniel Zoerb | 7.00 |
Frank Hill | 7.00 |
Gregory Daymond | 7.00 |
John Curry | 7.00 |
Murry McLaughlin | 7.00 |
Reade Tilley | 7.00 |
Ripley Jones | 7.00 |
Richard Hurd | 6.09 |
Fred Ohr | 6.00 |
Henry Mills | 6.00 |
James Peck | 6.00 |
J Collinsworth | 6.00 |
Lewis Chick | 6.00 |
Merriwell Vineyard | 6.00 |
Raymond Care | 6.00 |
Raymond Harmeyer | 6.00 |
Roy Evans | 6.00 |
William Dillard | 6.00 |
William Dunn | 6.00 |
Frederick Trafton | 5.50 |
Joseph Lynch | 5.50 |
Oscar Coen | 5.50 |
Harrison Thyng | 5.00 |
Arthur Cleaveland | 5.00 |
Charles Fischette | 5.00 |
David Wilhelm | 5.00 |
Edward Gimbel | 5.00 |
George Loving | 5.00 |
Jackson Mahon | 5.00 |
James Peck | 5.00 |
James Empey | 5.00 |
John White | 5.00 |
Kenneth Smith | 5.00 |
Richard Faxon | 5.00 |
Richard Alexander | 5.00 |
Selden Edner | 5.00 |
Virgil Fields | 5.00 |
Francis Dawson-Paul | 7.50 |
D Pieri | 6.00 |
V Cabas | 5.00 |
P Johnson | 5.00 |
H Zary | 5.00 |
J Carey | 4.50 |
R Davenport | 4.50 |
M Fletcher | 4.50 |
J Butler | 4.50 |
W Daley | 2.50 |
J Adams | 4.50 |
J Ainley | 8.00 |
J Aitken | 4.50 |
R Baker | 16.50 |
R Burnett | 5.00 |
J Jacobs | 4.50 |
M McPharlin | 3.00 |
J Thorne | 5.00 |
V Wynn | 4.00 |
V France | 4.50 |
Agorastos Plagis | 16.00 |
John Bisdee | 8.00 |
Bob Foster | 7.00 |
Tom Neil | 14.00 |
Basil Stapleton | 6.00 |
Walter Lawson | 6.00 |
Paul Farnes | 8.00 |
Wallace Cunningham | 8.00 |
Wilf Sizer | 7.00 |
W Duncan-Smith | 17.00 |
Alan Page | 12.50 |
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