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The Supermarine Seafire is a naval version of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter adapted for operation from aircraft ... the last Spitfire in Irish service was withdrawn.
The Irish Air Corps operated 12 LF.III Spitfires, in its de-navalized Seafire model between 1947–1955, and were at once very popular with the crews. This prompted the purchase of the two-seat trainer version, the Spitfire T9, which served between 1951 and 1961. Irish Air Corps. No 1. Fighter Squadron (1947–1955) Air Corps Training Wing ...
Seafire LF Mk.III RX168 (G-BWEM). Under restoration to airworthiness. Delivered to the Irish Air Corps as IAC 157 until becoming an instructional airframe in 1953. It was possibly broken up in the 1960s, but became a restoration project sometime after and registered G-BWEM in 1995. [274] Seafire F Mk.XV SR462 (G-TGVP). Flew with the Burmese Air ...
In 1951, a further six TR 9 trainers were converted from the standard Mk IX to train pilots for the Irish Air Corps (IAC) Seafire fleet. The Spitfires provided transition training that included gunnery practice since the type was equipped with two .303 Browning machine guns, one in each outer wing bay.
Supermarine V.S. 506 Seafire LF.III – 12× 1947–1955 [26] Bombers ... Fairey Battle TT.I – 1x Irish Air Corps interned 1 ex-RAF target tug in 1942. It was in ...
From August 1971, during The Troubles, the then disused airfield and facilities of RAF Long Kesh became the Long Kesh Detention Centre, where Irish paramilitary suspects were detained by the British government without trial (under the Special Powers Act of 1922) during the Operation Demetrius phase of Operation Banner.
The Spitfire was also adopted for service on aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy; in this role they were renamed Supermarine Seafire. Although the first version of the Seafire, the Seafire Ib, was a straight adaptation of the Spitfire Vb, successive variants incorporated much needed strengthening of the basic structure of the airframe and ...
It moved its HQ the short distance across Mainland, Orkney, to RNAS Twatt (HMS Tern) during June 1942 and at that point the squadron was equipped with sixty-three Supermarine Walrus amphibious biplanes. [7] At the time the squadron moved its HQ, known as ‘A’ Flight, to RNAS Twatt it provided a ten-week training course for new catapult Flights.