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 operational history of Burma Air Force in 1954-5, where they joined 20 Seafire XVs, bought in 1952 direct from Vickers-Armstrong, and three Mk XVIIIs purchased from Air Command South-East Asia. They were used on counter-insurgency missions against separatist forces, to strafe Communist positions in the north of the country as civil war replaced the struggle between British and Japanese. The accident rate amongst local Spitfire pilots was exceptionally high. The aircraft remained in service until at least 1954. French Armée de l'Air and Aéronavale received in Indochina a squadron of Spitfire Mk. VIIIs when RAF left Tan Son Nhut in 1946. They