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Supermarine Aircraft
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A separate entry gives the history of Supermarine
| Supermarine Aircraft | ||
| Model | Date | Detail |
| Baby | 1917 | Single seat fighter flying boat |
| Sea Lion | 1919 | Schneider race flying boat |
| Sea King | 1919 | Single seat fighter flying boat |
| Channel | 1919 | Civil version of the AD Boat |
| Seagull | 1921 | Amphibian Fleet Spotter. 450 hp Napier Lion engines. 6 built. |
| Sea Eagle | 1923 | Civil amphibian flying boat |
| Scarab | 1924 | Military version of Sea Eagle |
| Swan | 1924 | Experimental amphibian |
| Sparrow | 1924 | Two-seat ultralight |
| Southampton | 1925 | Flying boat for general reconnaissance. Five-crew biplane with two 470 hp Napier Lion V or two 502 hp Napier Lion VA engines suspended on struts between the two wings. Mk1 had a wooden hull but the Mk2 was metal. 78 were built.
A Southampton X was built with three Jupiter engines. |
| S.4 | 1925 | Schneider race seaplane |
| S.5 | 1927 | Schneider race seaplane. |
| Flying Yacht | 1931 | Six-passenger All Metal Flying Yacht. |
| Scapa | 1932 | Flying boat for general reconnaissance. Five crew biplane powered by two 525 hp Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIIMS engines. Re-engineered version of the Southampton. 14 planes built. |
| Seamew | 1928 | |
| S.6 | 1929 | Racing seaplane. |
| S.6B | 1931 | Racing seaplane (first aircraft over 400 mph) |
| Stranraer | 1932 | |
| Seagull | 1933 | Mk V. Amphibian Flying Boat. |
| Walrus | 1936-1944 | Reconnaissance amphibian. Based on the Seagull. Powered by Pegasus VI engines. 740 built. |
| Supermarine: Spitfire | 1936 | |
| Sea Otter | 1938 | Flying boat |
| Seafire | 1942 | Carrier-based fighter. |
| Spiteful | 1944 | Replacement for the Spitfire |
| Seafang | 1946 | Development of Spiteful. Naval fighter bomber. |
| Attacker | 1946 | Jet fighter |
| Seagull ASR-1 | 1948 | Air-sea rescue and reconnaissance |
| Swift | 1948 | Post World War Two jet fighter |
| Scimitar | 1951 | Naval ground attack aircraft |
| 525 | ||
| N.113 | 1956 | Naval Strike aircraft
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| Supermarine Aircraft | ||
Designs and submissions only
- Supermarine Type 545 - supersonic version of Swift
- Supermarine Type 553 (1953) - supersonic fighter project
- Supermarine Type 559 (1955) - submission for Operational Requirement F.155 for a high altitude supersonic fighter
Return to Supermarine
Sources of Information
- The Aeroplanes of the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) by J. M. Bruce. Published in 1982. ISBN 0-370-30084-x
- The Encyclopedia of British Military Aircraft by Chaz Bowyer. Published in 1982. ISBN 1-85841-031-2
- [1] Wikipedia
- Warplanes of the World 1918-1939 by Michael J. H. Taylor. Published 1981. ISBN 0-7110-1078-1