All of this meant that the Spitfire was a very versatile aircraft, and successive variants would assume a variety of roles. The 1942 HF Mark VII, for instance, ...

-Interestingly, some Spitfire pilots even modified their aircraft to deliver beer to troops after D-Day. Today, only about 50 Spitfires remain airworthy, including one owned by actor Brad Pitt.

Spitfire that downed Nazi aircraft and starred in 1969 Hollywood epic 'The Longest Day' is set to fetch £4.5M at auction. The Spitfire is set to go under the hammer during an auction in Goodwood ...

The engine in the Supermarine Spitfire was a Rolls-Royce Merlin that eventually went into America's P-51 Mustang, as well. It had a lot of power.

A Spitfire plane carrying a pilot and one passenger has crash-landed on a field in Kent. The World War Two plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a field near Lower Wall Road in West ...

The Spitfire aircraft involved in the close-call incident is thought to be a two-seat T9 trainer variant, which was originally a Mark IXc version built in 1943.

THIS is the shocking moment a Spitfire crash landed in a field while “practising for a VE Day event”. The 82-year-old World War II fighter aircraft made the emergency landing in a farme… ...

A Second World War Spitfire fighter plane has crashed in a field in Kent. The plane, owned by Fly A Spitfire, went down "in the vicinity of Hythe on 03/05/2025 (Saturday)", the company said in a ...

Staycationers say a Spitfire plane misfired above a caravan park, lost altitude and narrowly missed trees moments before crash landing in a field.