Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire The Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire is an Australian homebuilt aircraft produced in kit form by Supermarine Aircraft. A replica of the famous British Supermarine Spitfire World War II fighter, it was originally produced to 75% scale. Subsequent models have increased the scale of the fuselage and added a second seat. Australian pilot and aviation engineer Mike O'Sullivan had always wanted a Spitfire and built a replica for his own use in 1991. This was followed by a , Rotax-powered prototype in 1994. The next year, in 1995, he joined with business partner John McCarron to form the Supermarine
Aircraft in fiction Harbor" (2001), directed by Michael Bay, included a sequence which featured Spitfires. A Spitfire Mk Vb featured in at least three episodes of the British ITV television series "Foyle's War" (2002-2015). The central character Detective Foyle has a son Andrew, who is a pilot in the Royal Air Force during WW2. One episode to feature the Spitfire was "Among the Few" in season 2 where one of Andrew's fellow pilots is revealed to be a secret homosexual and guilty of manslaughter. Spitfires starred in the 2006 seven-minute short film/commercial "Pilots" produced by the Swiss-German watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen to promote