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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)
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 - Fighter 1918 1 prototype , 1 other aircraft[1] 1918 (1918 (between February and the autumn of that year)[1] 0 Maiden flight before November 1918.[1]
Nighthawk (P.B.31E) - Fighter 1917 1 prototype ? 0 Modified from the P.B.29. Scrapped (July 1917).[1] 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)[2]
SeafangC 382 396 Fighter 1946 18 ? 0[2] 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 - Fighter 1920 (1920/?) 2 1921 0 The second aircraft (the Sea King II) was converted to become the Sea Lion II in 1922.[3]
Spiteful 371 383 393 Fighter 1944 (1944/06) 19 / 3 prototypes scrapped from 1948 onwards 0 NN664 first flew in January 1945
Spitfire 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 information: List of surviving Supermarine Spitfires
Condition Number
Airworthy 75
Static display 63
Restoration / stored 63
Total 201
SwiftS 510 517 520 528 531-2 535 541 546-52 557 Fighter 1954 (1948/12) 197 ? 6 G-SWIF (SS);[4] VV106 (FAAM); WK198 (Brooklands Museum, Surrey, UK, fuselage); WK275 (Jet Art Aviation?); WK277 (Newark Air Museum); WK281 (Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Sussex, UK);
Type 224S 224 Fighter 1934 (1934/02) 1 prototype 1937 0 Used as a target and destroyed in 1937.[5]
Type 324, 325S 324 325 Fighter 1938 0 - - Design proposals (1938)
Type 525C 525 526 Fighter 1954 (1954/04) 1 prototype 1955 0 Crashed 1955
Type 545C 545 554 Fighter 1952 (built but never flew) 1 1952 0 Scrapped (1967)
Channel - Reconnaissance and patrol 1919 10 ? 0 One aircraft was retired from service with the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service in 1928.[6]
Nanok; SolentC - Reconnaissance and patrol 1927 (1927/06) 1 1934 0 Renamed as the Supermarine Solent in 1928 (scrapped in 1934)
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."[3]
Scarabno article - Reconnaissance and patrol ? 12 ? ? Delivered by sea to the Spanish Royal Naval Air Service (summer 1924)[4]
Scyllas - Reconnaissance and patrol ? ? ? ? Taxi trials (assumed to have occurred late Feb/early March 1924)Andrews & Morgan, p.88
Seal II - Reconnaissance and patrol 1921 1 ? ? One of a number of aircraft sold to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (November 1921)
Seagull (1921)B 223 228 Reconnaissance and patrol; surveying 1921 (1921/05) 34 ? (UK); 1936 (Australia) 1 (nose cone at SS) A9-1 – A9-9 (Australia)
Seagull (1948)S 347 381 504 530 Reconnaissance and patrol 1948 (1948/07) 3 1952 0 All three aircraft scrapped in 1952
Seamew - Reconnaissance and patrol 1928 (1928/01) 2 1930 0 Both aircraft scrapped in 1930 after an incident in April that year
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
SheldrakeC - Reconnaissance and patrol 1927 (1927/?) 1 ? ? Present at the MAEE (Felixstowe, UK) in January 1928[5]
SouthamptonC 171 184-5 188-90 233-4 Reconnaissance and patrol 1925 (1925/03) 83 ? 1[6] Fuselage at Hendon
Stranraer 230 237 304 Reconnaissance and patrol 1937 (1934/07) 57 1958? 1 920/CF-BXO (Hendon); parts of a second aircraft (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Walrus/Seagull V 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?)
Air Yacht - Civil 1930 (1930/02) 1 1933 0 Crashed in January 1933, sold for scrap the following year.[7]
Commercial Amphibian - Civil 1920 (1920/09) 1 1920 0 Destroyed in an accident in October 1920
GiantS 179 Civil - 0 - - -
Sea EagleS - Civil 1923 (1923/06) 3 1928 0 The wooden hull of the last surviving aircraft was burnt in 1954
Sparrow - 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
Swan - Civil 1926 1 1927 0 Scrapped (autumn 1928)
S.4 - Racer 1925 (1925/08) 1 1925 0 Crashed at sea (October 1925)
S.5C - Racer 1927 (1927/06) 3 1929 ? An S.5 took part in the 1929 Schneider Trophy contest
S.6 (S.6A) 186 Racer 1929 (1929/?) 2 1931 1 N248 (SS)
S.6BB 187 Racer 1931 (1931/?) 2 1931 1 S1595 (the Schneider trophy 1931 winning aircraft, Science Museum (London))
Sea Lion I - Racer 1919 1 1919 0 Scrapped in 1928.[8]
Sea Lion IIC - Racer 1922 1 - 0 Re-engined and renamed as the Sea Lion III in 1923.[9]
Sea Lion IIIS - Racer 1923[9] 1[9] 1923 0 Participated in the Schneider Trophy context September 1923 (position—3rd)[7] Transferred to the Royal Air Force in 1923.[9]
Sea Urchins - Racer - 0 - - Unbuilt.[10]
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).[11]
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
Supermarine Type 553S 553 Experimental aircraft - - - - Proposed Mach 2 research aircraft project

Other projects

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Type Specification Role Introduced Number built xxx Notes/last known whereabouts
231 Air Ministry specification (AMS) C.26/31 Bomber transport - 1 - - Twin-engined.[12]
xxxxxx Fighter - 1 - -
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xxxxxx Fighter - 1 - -
xxxxxx Fighter - 1 - -
xxxxxx Fighter - 1 - -
xxxxxx Fighter - 1 - -
xxxxxx Fighter - 1 - -
xxxxxx Fighter - 1 - -

References

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  1. ^ a b c Pegram 2016, p. 19.
  2. ^ "Vickers Supermarine Type 525 & 544 Scimitar". BAE Systems. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  3. ^ Andrews & Morgan 1981, p. 355.
  4. ^ "Over 20 aircraft to discover and explore". Solent Sky. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  5. ^ Price 2002, p. 14.
  6. ^ Andrews & Morgan 1981, pp. 35–36.
  7. ^ Pegram 2016, p. 111.
  8. ^ Andrews & Morgan 1981, p. 59.
  9. ^ a b c d Jackson 1988, p. 314.
  10. ^ Andrews & Morgan 1981, pp. 174–175.
  11. ^ Andrews & Morgan 1981, p. 325.
  12. ^ Pegram 2016, p. 232.
  13. ^ a b Pegram 2016, p. 174.

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