They were primarily a repair and overhaul shop, but also a construction shop for other companies' designs, notably the Supermarine Seafire.
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In 1943 they won a contract to produce the Supermarine Seafire, 118 Seafire Ibs incorporating the fuselage reinforcements were modified from Spitfire Vbs by the company and Air Training Service.
Supermarine Seafire F Mk. XVII; a Royal Navy fighter with reinforced wings and modified landing gear
Forty-three Avenger bombers, 12 Firefly fighter-bombers with rockets and fifty Hellcat, Corsair and Seafire fighters were launched, approaching with the sun behind them and diving from 9000 feet to 3000 feet to release their bombs.
After leaving school he joined the Royal Navy in 1942 and undertook pilot training in the United States and South Africa, before flying Supermarine Seafires and Chance-Vought F4U Corsairs during the final days of the Second World War.
Supermarine Seafire, a British naval fighter in service during WW2 and immediate post-war.
Supermarine Seafire | Supermarine Walrus | Supermarine Swift | Seafire | Supermarine Spitfire (late Merlin powered variants) | Supermarine Spitfire (Griffon powered variants) | Supermarine Spiteful | Supermarine Sea Otter | Supermarine Scimitar | Supermarine S.6B | Supermarine Attacker |
At the re-formation it was based at Arbroath and equipped with 25 Seafire L.IIIs, but just as it was about to ship out to the Far East in August 1945, the war came to an end.
The Horsa, Ambassador, Mosquito, Vampire, Sea Vampire, Sea Venom and Sea Vixen were all manufactured here and in addition a number of Spitfires were converted into Seafires.