Supermarine Aircraft in the US and is now an American limited liability company. Aircraft are now approved and flying in many countries and over 92 have been sold. The Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire is the only all-aluminium replica Spitfire in production. Three models have been produced, all sub-scale: Supermarine Aircraft Supermarine Aircraft, LLC is an American kit aircraft manufacturer based in Cisco, Texas, with its head office in nearby Clyde. Originally founded in Brisbane, Australia by Mike O'Sullivan and his business partner John McCarron, the company manufactures the Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire homebuilt kit aircraft which, although slightly smaller than the original Supermarine Spitfire,
Supermarine Spitfire against the Luftwaffe; however, because of its higher performance, the overall attrition rate of the Spitfire squadrons was lower than that of the Hurricane units, and the Spitfire units had a higher victory-to-loss ratio. The key aim of Fighter Command was to stop the Luftwaffe's bombers; in practice, whenever possible, the tactic was to use Spitfires to counter German escort fighters, by then based in northern France, particularly the Bf 109s, while the Hurricane squadrons attacked the bombers. Well-known Spitfire pilots included "Johnnie" Johnson—34 enemy aircraft (e/a) shot down—who flew the Spitfire right through his operational career from late 1940