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Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb (Sep 1943 – Apr 1944) Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc (Sep 1943 – Apr 1944) Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX (Oct 1943 – Apr 1944) Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire LF.IXe (Apr 1944 – Mar 1945) Vickers-Supermarine Spitfire LF.XVIe (Mar 1945 – May 1945) Gloster Meteor F.3 (May 1945 – Mar 1948)
The Supermarine Spiteful was a British fighter aircraft designed by Supermarine during the Second World War as a successor to the Spitfire. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, it had a radical new wing design to allow safe operations at higher speeds and incorporating inwards-retracting undercarriage .
Boulton Paul Defiants and Supermarine Spitfires were then supplied for spotting downed aircrew in the English Channel. The Vickers Warwick which could drop lifeboats was operated from November 1944 and the squadron was able to increase its area of operations with a detachment based at RAF Portreath. The squadron was disbanded On 15 February 1945.
The squadron disbanded on 12 January 1944 when it was absorbed by 278 Squadron. The squadron reformed at RAF Davidstow Moor on 1 February 1944 to provide air-sea rescue cover of the Western Approaches. The squadron kept the Walrus aircraft and additionally operated the Vickers Warwick and Supermarine Sea Otter.
Supermarine Attacker, Supermarine Swift and Supermarine Scimitar were developed there as well as many early experimental swept-wing jet fighters. The airfield was also used for some location filming of David Lean's classic film The Sound Barrier in the early 1950s. The Spitfire T Mk IX, a 2-seat trainer and the last Spitfire variant to be built ...
May 1944: Supermarine Spitfire: IIA Mar 1943: Mar 1944: Avro Anson: I Feb 1944: May 1944: Supermarine Sea Otter: Apr 1944: Nov 1944: Vickers Warwick: I May 1944: Jun ...
Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers. Post-WWII, Vickers went on to manufacture the piston-engined Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners and (as part of BAC) the VC10 jet airliner, which was used in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker until 2013.
In March 1944 the squadron moved to Idku, still in Egypt, and re-equipped with the Wellington Mk.XI and later also the Wellington Mk.XIII and the Vickers Warwick. In June 1945 the squadron moved to RAF Basra , Iraq to provide rescue cover in the Persian Gulf and Arabian sea until it was disbanded on 8 April 1946.