Supermarine Spitfire MK. I-XVI in RAF-SAAF-RAAF-RNZAF-RCAF & foreign service Illustrated by Richard Ward. Compiled by ... Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object Details author Ward, Richard ...

Spitfire Mk XVI TE311, part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, marks its 80th anniversary in 2025. Restored to flight in 2012 after decades on static display, the aircraft now honors both ...

Charles Somers’ Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI and Dean Thomas’s Twin Beech 18, along with other aircraft, on display at Stead airport in Reno, Nevada. For almost all of the last 22 years, the ...

A Spitfire flies at the Lincolnshire base of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight after an 11-year restoration project. ... TE311 is a Mk XVI with "clipped" wingtips, ...

Last September the auction house sold a non-airworthy 1945 Supermarine Spitfire for a record price of £1.1 million. This was a “Bubble Canopy” MK XVI, considered by collectors as being less ...

A Spitfire which was donated to Stoke-on-Trent in honour of the famous aircraft's designer has gone on display in a new £5.4m glass gallery. The Mark XVI Spitfire was unveiled in the Potteries ...

The Mark XVI Spitfire, built at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, in May 1945, saw service in Germany shortly after the Second World War ended and last flew in 1952, when it was damaged during take-off ...

The Supermarine Spitfire The Spitfire was a short-range, high-performance interceptor aircraft used by the Royal Air Force. In total, 20,351 units were produced, each one costing £13,000 ($22,257).