| Supermarine Seafire |
| Nationality |
British |
| Aircraft Type |
Carrier-based fighter |
| First Flight |
Late 1941 |
| Entered Service |
1942 |
| Crew |
1 |
| Notes |
Details for Mark III. Naval version of the Supermarine Spitfire. |
| Specification |
| Powerplant |
One 1.470 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 55 inline piston engine |
| Performance |
| Speed |
566 km/h at 3.735 m; Crusie 351 km/h at 6.100 m |
| Range |
748 km or 1.167 km with drop tanks |
| Service Ceiling |
10.300 m |
| Dimensions |
| Wingspan |
11,18 m |
| Wing Area |
24,48 m² |
| Length |
9,14 m |
| Height |
3,4 m |
| Weights |
| Empty Weight |
2.449 kg |
| Maximum Take Off Weight |
3.221 kg |
| Weaponry |
| Guns |
Two 20 mm cannon and four 0,303 in machine guns in wings |
| Bombs etc |
500 lb of bombs |
| Versions |
| Prototype |
One Spitfire Mk VB converison with deck-arrester hook |
| Mk IB |
166 Spitfire VB conversions; Rolls-Royce Merlin 45 or 46; Two hispanio cannon and two 0,303 in Browning machine guns |
| F.Mk IIC |
Medium altitude fighter version. Spitfire Mk VC conversions with Universal wing |
| L.(F).Mk IIC |
Low altitude fighter version. Spitfire Mk VC conversions with Universal wing |
| F.R. Mk IIC |
Reconnaissance fighter version. Spitfire Mk VC conversions with Universal wing |
| F.Mk III |
As MK IIC variants above, with foldine wings |
| L.(F).Mk III |
As MK IIC variants above, with foldine wings |
| F.R. Mk III |
As MK IIC variants above, with foldine wings |
| Mk III (Hybrid) |
Westland-built model with normal non-folding wings; Merlin 55; redesignated as L.(F).Mk IIC |
| Mk XV, XVIII, 45, 46 and 47 |
Griffon-engined post-war variants |
