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Aircraft
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Type | Type numbers | Role | Introduced (First Flight) | Number built | Retired | Surviving aircraft | Notes/last known whereabouts (W) |
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AttackerB | 392 397-8 500 513-6 519 527 538 542 | Fighter | 1950 (1946/07) | 182 / 3 prototypes | 1964 (claimed) | 1 | WA473 transferred to the Fleet Air Arm Museum (FAAM) in 1961 |
Baby 10px | - | Fighter | 1918 | 1 prototype , 1 other aircraft{{sfn|Pegram|2016|p=19}} | 1918 (1918 (between February and the autumn of that year){{sfn|Pegram|2016|p=19}} | 0 | Maiden flight before November 1918.{{sfn|Pegram|2016|p=19}} |
Nighthawk (P.B.31E) 10px | - | Fighter | 1917 | 1 prototype | ? | 0 | Modified from the P.B.29. Scrapped (July 1917).[https://archive.org/details/colourencycloped0000jarr/page/104/mode/2up?view=theater] 2 propellers (Solent Sky (SS)) |
ScimitarS | 505 508 522-3 529 537 539 543 544 555—6 558 560-7 572 574-6 660–667 | Fighter | 1957 (1956/01) | 76 | 1969 | 3 | XD220 (Empire State Aerosciences Museum); XD317 (FAAM); XD332 (SS){{cite web |url = https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/heritage/vickers-supermarine-525-544-scimitar |title = Vickers Supermarine Type 525 & 544 Scimitar |publisher = BAE Systems |access-date = 14 February 2024}} |
SeafangC | 382 396 | Fighter | 1946 | 18 | ? | 0[https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/heritage/vickers-supermarine-seafang] | VB895 flown May 1947, during deck landing trials |
SeafireC | 338 340 355 357-8 377 384 386 388 395 506 | Fighter | 1942 (1942/01) | 2,646 | 1954 | 8 | SW800 (Adelaide); PR376 (Myanmar); PP972 (UK, privately owned (PO)); SX336 (UK, PO); SX137 (FAAM); PR503 (US, PO); VP441 (US, PO); PR451 (Military Museums, Canada) |
Sea King 10px | - | Fighter | 1920 (1920/?) | 2 | 1921 | 0 | The second aircraft (the Sea King II) was converted to become the Sea Lion II in 1922.{{sfn|Andrews|Morgan|1981|p=355}} |
Spiteful 10px | 371 383 393 | Fighter | 1944 (1944/06) | 19 / 3 prototypes | scrapped from 1948 onwards | 0 | NN664 first flew in January 1945 |
Spitfire 10px | 300 305 311-2 323 329-32 335-7 341-6 348-56 359-70 372-6 378-9 385 387 389 390 394 501-2 509 518 | Fighter | 1938 (1936/03) | 20,351 | 1961 | 201 (see Notes) | {{further|List of surviving Supermarine Spitfires}}
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Condition | Number | ||||||
Airworthy | 75 | ||||||
Static display | 63 | ||||||
Restoration / stored | 63 | ||||||
Total | 201 |
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| SwiftS || 510 517 520 528 531-2 535 541 546-52 557 || Fighter || 1954 (1948/12) || 197 || ? || 6 || G-SWIF (SS);{{cite web |title=Over 20 aircraft to discover and explore |url=https://www.solentsky.org/exhibitions |publisher=Solent Sky |access-date=14 February 2024}} VV106 (FAAM); WK198 (Brooklands Museum, Surrey, UK, fuselage); WK275 (Jet Art Aviation?); WK277 (Newark Air Museum); WK281 (Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Sussex, UK);
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| Type 224S || 224 || Fighter || 1934 (1934/02) || 1 prototype || 1937 || 0 || Used as a target and destroyed in 1937.{{sfn|Price|2002|p=14}}
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| Type 324, 325S || 324 325 || Fighter || 1938 || 0 || - || - || Design proposals (1938)
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| Type 525C || 525 526 || Fighter || 1954 (1954/04) || 1 prototype || 1955 || 0 || Crashed 1955
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| Type 545C || 545 554 || Fighter || 1952 (built but never flew) || 1 || 1952 || 0 || Scrapped (1967)
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| Channel 10px || - || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1919 || 10 || ? || 0 || One aircraft was retired from service with the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service in 1928.{{sfn|Andrews|Morgan|1981|pp=35{{ndash}}36}}
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| Nanok; SolentC || - || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1927 (1927/06) || 1 || 1934 || 0 || Renamed as the Supermarine Solent in 1928 (scrapped in 1934)
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| ScapaS || 221 226 229 235 303 || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1935 (1932/?) || 15 || 1939 || ? || Retired in 1939. See also "As of 3 September 1939 the RAF strength return reported... 4 Scapa under Training/Communication heading. Down to 2 Scapa on 1 May 1940 and 0 on 3 September 1940."[https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235090792-old-types-of-british-flying-boats-during-ww2/]
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| Scarabno article || - || Reconnaissance and patrol || ? || 12 || ? || ? || Delivered by sea to the Spanish Royal Naval Air Service (summer 1924)[http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_supermarine_scarab.html]
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| Scyllas || - || Reconnaissance and patrol || ? || ? || ? || ? || Taxi trials (assumed to have occurred late Feb/early March 1924)Andrews & Morgan, p.88
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| Seal II 10px || - || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1921 || 1 || ? || ? || One of a number of aircraft sold to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (November 1921)
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| Seagull (1921)B || 223 228 || Reconnaissance and patrol; surveying || 1921 (1921/05) || 34 || ? (UK); 1936 (Australia) || 1 (nose cone at SS) || A9-1{{snd}}A9-9 (Australia)
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| Seagull (1948)S || 347 381 504 530 || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1948 (1948/07) || 3 || 1952 || 0 ||All three aircraft scrapped in 1952
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| Seamew 10px || - || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1928 (1928/01) || 2 || 1930 || 0 || Both aircraft scrapped in 1930 after an incident in April that year
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| Sea OtterC || 309 399 503 || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1944 (1938/09) || 292 || ? || 0 || The Fleet Air Arm Museum (Australia) has the nose section of JN200
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| SheldrakeC || - || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1927 (1927/?) || 1 || ? || ? || Present at the MAEE (Felixstowe, UK) in January 1928[http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_supermarine_sheldrake.html]
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| SouthamptonC || 171 184-5 188-90 233-4 || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1925 (1925/03) || 83 || ? || 1[https://www.aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/royal-air-force-museum-hendon/supermarine-southampton-1-n9899-raf/] || Fuselage at Hendon
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| Stranraer 10px || 230 237 304 || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1937 (1934/07) || 57 || 1958? || 1 || 920/CF-BXO (Hendon); parts of a second aircraft (Nova Scotia, Canada)
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| Walrus/Seagull V 10px || 236 307 315 320 326 507 || Reconnaissance and patrol || 1935 (1933/06) || 740 || ? || 4 || A2-4 (Hendon); HD874 (RAAF Museum); L2301 (FAAM); W2718 (PO, Duxford?)
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| Air Yacht 10px || - || Civil || 1930 (1930/02) || 1 || 1933 || 0 || Crashed in January 1933, sold for scrap the following year.{{sfn|Pegram|2016|p=111}}
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| Commercial Amphibian 10px || - || Civil || 1920 (1920/09) || 1 || 1920 || 0 || Destroyed in an accident in October 1920
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| GiantS || 179 || Civil || - || 0 || - || - || -
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| Sea EagleS || - || Civil || 1923 (1923/06) || 3 || 1928 || 0 || The wooden hull of the last surviving aircraft was burnt in 1954
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| Sparrow 10px || - || Civil || 1924 (1924/09) || 1 || 1930 || 0 || The Sparrow was rebuilt in 1926 as a monoplane and re-designated Sparrow II, the aircraft was scrapped in 1933
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| Swan 10px || - || Civil || 1926 || 1 || 1927 || 0 || Scrapped (autumn 1928)
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| S.4 10px || - || Racer || 1925 (1925/08) || 1 || 1925 || 0 || Crashed at sea (October 1925)
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| S.5C || - || Racer || 1927 (1927/06) || 3 || 1929 || ? || An S.5 took part in the 1929 Schneider Trophy contest
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| S.6 (S.6A)10px || 186 || Racer || 1929 (1929/?) || 2 || 1931 || 1 || N248 (SS)
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| S.6BB || 187 || Racer || 1931 (1931/?) || 2 || 1931 || 1 || S1595 (the Schneider trophy 1931 winning aircraft, Science Museum (London))
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| Sea Lion I 10px || - || Racer || 1919 || 1 || 1919 || 0 || Scrapped in 1928.{{sfn|Andrews|Morgan|1981|p=59}}
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| Sea Lion IIC || - || Racer || 1922 || 1 || - || 0 || Re-engined and renamed as the Sea Lion III in 1923.{{sfn|Jackson|1988|p=314}}
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| Sea Lion IIIS || - || Racer || 1923{{sfn|Jackson|1988|p=314}} || 1{{sfn|Jackson|1988|p=314}} || 1923 || 0 || Participated in the Schneider Trophy context September 1923 (position—3rd)[https://www.prints-online.com/aviation-images/supermarine-sea-lion-3-iii-18397543.html] Transferred to the Royal Air Force in 1923.{{sfn|Jackson|1988|p=314}}
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| Sea Urchins || - || Racer || - || 0 || - || - || Unbuilt.{{sfn|Andrews|Morgan|1981|pp=174{{ndash}}175}}
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| Type B.12/36S || 316 317 318 321 || Bomber || - || 0 || - || 0 || 2 aircraft were being built when they were destroyed by enemy action (September 1940).{{sfn|Andrews|Morgan|1981|p=325}}
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| Supermarine Type 322B || 322 380 || Naval torpedo, dive bomber and reconnaissance aircraft || 1943 (1943/02) || 2 || ? || ? || Used in 1946 for chase in the low-speed handling trials
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| Supermarine Type 553S || 553 || Experimental aircraft || - || - || - || - || Proposed Mach 2 research aircraft project
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Other projects
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Type | Specification | Role | Introduced | Number built | xxx | Notes/last known whereabouts |
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231 | Air Ministry specification (AMS) C.26/31 | Bomber transport | - | 1 - | - | Twin-engined.{{sfn|Pegram|2016|p=232}} |
xxxxxx | Fighter | - | 1 - | - | ||
xxxxxx | Fighter | - | 1 - | - | ||
xxxxxx | Fighter | - | 1 - | - | ||
xxxxxx | Fighter | - | 1 - | - | ||
xxxxxx | Fighter | - | 1 - | - | ||
xxxxxx | Fighter | - | 1 - | - | ||
xxxxxx | Fighter | - | 1 - | - | ||
xxxxxx | Fighter | - | 1 - | - |
- Supermarine Type 232 – Seaplane (4-engined, Rolls-Royce Goshawk engines) – AMS R.2/33 – designed by Mitchell in April 1934.{{sfn|Pegram|2016|p=174}}
- Supermarine Type 238 – Seaplane – AMS R.2/33 (biplane, March 1934){{sfn|Pegram|2016|p=174}}
- Supermarine Type 239 – R.2/33
- Supermarine Type 240 – Twin engine coastal reconnaissance landplane
- Supermarine Type 302 – Imperial Airways 4 engine flying boat
- Supermarine Type 306 – Imperial Airways transatlantic passenger flying boat
- Supermarine Type 308 – flying boat to R.12/35
- Supermarine Type 310 – flying boat
- Supermarine Type 313 – fighter F.37/35
- Supermarine Type 314 – flying boat R.1/36
- Supermarine Type 319 – 2 seat fighter
- Supermarine Type 327 – twin engine cannon fighter based on Spitfire
- Supermarine Type 328 – flying boat
- Supermarine Type 333 – two seat fleet fighter
- Supermarine Type 334
- Supermarine Type 339 – single Seat FAA fighter NAD 925/39
- Supermarine Type 391 – Royal Navy high performance aeroplane
- Supermarine Type 511 – RAF night fighter
- Supermarine Type 524 – marine reconnaissance flying boat
- Supermarine Type 533 – 34mm recoiless Vickers cannon
- Supermarine Type 569 – V-bomber guided powered bomb
- Supermarine Type 573 – ER.197D 25% experimental delta wing
- Supermarine Type 577 – supersonic strike aircraft
- Supermarine Type 581 – OR.346 & ER.206/4 VG strike aircraft
- Supermarine Type 582 – OR.346 strike aircraft
- Supermarine Type 583 – OR.346 & AW.406 VG naval strike fighter
- Supermarine Type 584 – OR.346 & NBMR.3 VSTOL strike aircraft
- Supermarine Type 585 – Naval close support type 584
- Supermarine Type 586 – Mach 2 VG airliner
- Supermarine Type 586 – Mach 2 VG airliner
- Supermarine Type 588 – OR.346 VG research aircraft
- Supermarine Type 589 – OR.346 VG research aircraft, demilitarized type 590
- Supermarine Type 590 – OR.346 Strike aircraft, production version of type 589
- Supermarine Type 591 – OR.346 High Mach number type 589
- Supermarine Type 592 – bomber
- Supermarine Type 593 – Small VG experimental aircraft
- Supermarine Type 599 – advanced fighter project
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |last1=Andrews |first1=Charles Ferdinand |last2=Morgan |first2=Eric B. |title=Supermarine Aircraft since 1914 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3NTAAAAMAAJ |date=1981|edition=|publisher=Putnam |location=London |isbn=978-03701-0-018-0}}
- {{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=A. J. |title=British Civil Aircraft 1919–1972: Volume III |date=1988 |publisher=Putnam |location=London |isbn=978-0-85177-818-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/britishcivilairc0000jack/page/n7/mode/2up |url-access=registration }}
- {{cite book |last=Pegram |first=Ralph |title=Beyond the Spitfire: The Unseen Designs of R.J. Mitchell |date=2016 |publisher=The History Press |location=Pegram |isbn=978-0-7509-6515-6}}
- {{cite book |last1=Price |first1=Alfred |title=The Spitfire Story |date=2002 |publisher=Arms and Armour Press Ltd. |location=London |isbn=0-85368-861-3 |page=|url-access=registration |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/spitfirestory0000pric/page/n5/mode/2up}}
- {{cite book |last=Roussel |first=Mike |title=Spitfire's Forgotten Designer: The Career of Supermarine's Joe Smith |location=Brimscombe Port |publisher=The History Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-7524-8759-5}}
Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Shelton |first1=John K. |title=From Nighthawk to Spitfire: The Aircraft of R.J. Mitchell |date=2015 |publisher=History Press |location=Stroud, UK |isbn=978-07509-6-550-7 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/From_Nighthawk_to_Spitfire/oNDvCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0|ref=none}}
- {{cite book |last=Roussel |first=Mike |title=Spitfire's Forgotten Designer: The Career of Supermarine's Joe Smith |location=Brimscombe Port |publisher=The History Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-7524-8759-5 |ref=none}}
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