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The Supermarine Seafire is a naval version of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter adapted for operation from aircraft carriers. It was analogous in concept to the Hawker Sea Hurricane, a navalised version of the Spitfire's stablemate, the Hawker Hurricane. The name Seafire was derived from the contraction of the full name of Sea Spitfire. [2]
Depending on the supercharger fitted, engines were rated as low altitude (e.g.; Merlin 66, Griffon III), where the engine produced its maximum power below about 10,000 feet (3,000 m), medium altitude (Merlin 45), where the engine produced its maximum power up to about 20,000 feet (6,100 m), and high altitude (Merlin 70), where the engine produced its maximum power above about 25,000 feet ...
Seafire F Mk.46 LA564 (G-FRSX). Recovered in 1971 by Peter Arnold at the same time as LA546 for restoration. [278] It is now owned by Seafire Displays Ltd, Cayman Islands, but at Old Warden for restoration to fly. [4] In 2020, the fuselage was being prepared to be sent to Airframe Assemblies on the Isle of Wight to be rebuilt. [198]
Early Seafire marks had relatively few modifications to the standard Spitfire airframe; however cumulative front line experience meant that most of the later versions of the Seafire had strengthened airframes, folding wings, arrestor hooks and other modifications, culminating in the purpose-built Seafire F/FR Mk 47. [151]
The Mark numbers did not necessarily indicate a chronological order, the Mk IX was a stopgap brought into production before the Mks VII and VIII. Some Spitfires of one mark or variant may have been modified to another; several of the first Mk Vbs were converted from Mk Ibs; the first Mk IXs were Mk Vcs converted, in some instances, by Rolls ...
Production by Mark [51] [52] Mark Built by Numbers Built Notes F Mk XII: Supermarine: 100: First Mk XII 13 October 1942 F Mk XIV, FR Mk XIV: Supermarine: 957: First Mk XIV RB142 28 October 1943 F Mk XVIII: Supermarine: 300: First Mk XVIII June 1945 PR Mk XIX: Supermarine: 224: First Mk XIX RM626 May 1944 F Mk 21: Castle Bromwich: 120: First Mk ...
Belgian Spitfire exhibited in Royal Military Museum in Brussels Belgian Air Force. No. 349 Squadron RAF 1943–1945 1945–46; No. 350 Squadron RAF 1941–1946; After the war, Spitfires FR.14 variants were supplied to the Belgian Air Force and flew with Nos. 349 and 350 Squadrons of the 1st Wing at Beauvechain, Nos 1, 2, and 3 Squadrons of the 2nd Wing at Florennes, Nos 23, 27 and 31 Squadrons ...
Supermarine Seafire F Mk 46 fighter aircraft (May - August 1950) Blackburn Firebrand T.F. IV strike fighter (May 1950 - August 1951) Supermarine Seafire F Mk XVII fighter aircraft (May 1950-August 1951) Hawker Sea Fury F.10 fighter aircraft (May 1950 - August 1951) de Havilland Sea Hornet F.20 fighter aircraft (May 1950 - August 1951)