On April 22, 2025, Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I P9372 made its triumphant return to flight-a poignant resurrection of a machine that was shot down in 1940 and painstakingly restored to its former glory.

Charles Somers’ Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI and Dean Thomas’s Twin Beech 18, along with other aircraft, on display at Stead airport in Reno, Nevada. For almost all of the last 22 years, the ...

Several Mk 2EXVIs, the last production version to use the Merlin engine, remained in service through 1950. In all, 20,351 Spitfires were built. Long Description The Spitfire was the end product of ...

The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft by R. J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine Aviation Works (which operated as a subsidiary of Vickers ...

A Supermarine Spitfire Mk. 1 in flight from Eastleigh Aerodrome, 1938. The Royal Air Force’s first operational Spitfires arrived at the 19th Squadron’s airfield at Duxford on August 4, 1938.

Vickers Supermarine's initial submission was not successful, but through a series of prototypes and improvements (one being the implementation of Rolls-Royce's PV-XII V12 engine), the soon-to-be ...

The engine in the Supermarine Spitfire was a Rolls-Royce Merlin that eventually went into America's P-51 Mustang, as well. It had a lot of power.

The Spitfire was designed as a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft by R. J. Mitchell, chief designer at Supermarine Aviation Works (which operated as a subsidiary of Vickers ...