Manufacturer: Supermarine Aircraft Company
The prototype was first flown on 6th March 1936
Classification: Interceptor Fighter

SPECIFICATIONS: Mk.Vc (1941-43)
Span: 36 ft. 10 in. / 11.22 m (32 ft. 7 in. / 9.97 m in low-altitude version)
Length: 29 ft. 11 in / 9.11 m
Height: 11 ft. 4.75 in / 3.47 m
Weight Empty: 5,300 lb / 2,404.08 kg
Weight Loaded: 6,785 lbs. / 3,078 kg maximum takeoff

Armament: Normally two Hispano 20 mm cannon (120 rounds per gun) and four Browning .303 machine guns (350 rounds per gun). Some with four Hispano 20 mm. cannon.
Bomb load: two 250-lb./ 113.4 kg bombs or one 500-lb. bomb / 226.8 kg

Engines: One twelve-cylinder, liquid-cooled Rolls-Royce Merlin 45 of 1,470 hp.

Crew: One

PERFORMANCE:
Maximum speed: 374 mph. / 601.77 km/h at 13,000 ft. / 3,962.4 m
Range: 510 miles / 820.59 km

Service Ceiling: 37,000 ft. / 11,278 m

Unit Cost: £15,000 (about £500,000 in today's money)

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