Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XVI

Specifications
Aircraft Type:	Fighter
First Flight:	Prototype K 5054, March 1936
Wingspan:	36 feet 10 inches
Length:	31 feet 5 inches
Height:	11 feet 6 inches
Weight:	5,634 pounds
Capacity:	One
Status:	Display - Flyable

The Spitfire is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever designed. Her streamlined form and distinctive elliptical wings reveal an ancestry of Supermarine racing planes from the 1920s and 30s. The fastest military aircraft in the world in 1936, the Spitfire’s exceptional speed and rate of climb made it an ideal interceptor to pounce on marauding German bombers and speeding V-1 buzz bombs over English airspace during World War II. This Spitfire was delivered to Castle Bromwich, England on June 23, 1945. Assigned to Number 695 Squadron this aircraft was still flying when 695 became Number 35 Squadron on February 14, 1949. She is still airworthy today.