List of Supermarine Spitfire operators

This is a list of operators of the Supermarine Spitfire.

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 * Royal Australian Air Force
 * No. 79 Squadron RAAF
 * No. 85 Squadron RAAF
 * No. 451 Squadron RAAF
 * No. 452 Squadron RAAF
 * No. 453 Squadron RAAF
 * No. 457 Squadron RAAF


 * Royal Australian Navy

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 * Belgian Air Force
 * No. 349 Squadron RAF
 * No. 350 Squadron RAF

[[undefined|Burma]]

 * Burma Air Force

🇨🇦 [[canada|Canada]]

 * Royal Canadian Air Force
 * No. 400 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 401 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 402 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 403 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 411 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 412 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 414 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 416 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 417 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 421 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 430 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 441 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 442 Squadron RCAF
 * No. 443 Squadron RCAF


 * Royal Canadian Navy


 * Czech Air Force in exile in Great Britain
 * No. 310 Squadron RAF
 * No. 312 Squadron RAF
 * No. 313 Squadron RAF


 * Czechoslovakian Air Force
 * Czechoslovakian National Security Guard

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 * Royal Danish Air Force

🇪🇬 [[egypt|Egypt]]

 * Royal Egyptian Air Force

In the immediate post-war period a large number of Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IXs were acquired.

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 * Free French Air Force
 * No. 326 Squadron
 * No. 327 Squadron
 * No. 328 Squadron
 * No. 329 Squadron
 * No. 340 Squadron
 * No. 341 Squadron
 * No. 345 Squadron


 * Armee de l'Air


 * Aviation Navale

🇩🇪 [[germany|Germany]]
Luftwaffe captured several Spitfires and used them to test, and for operational training duties.
 * Luftwaffe
 * 2./Versuchsverband ObdL
 * KG 200

🇬🇷 [[greece|Greece]]

 * Royal Hellenic Air Force
 * No. 335 Squadron RAF
 * No. 336 Squadron RAF

🇭🇰 [[hong kong|Hong Kong]]

 * Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force
 * RAF at RAF Kai Tak
 * No. 80 Squadron RAF
 * No. 81 Squadron RAF
 * No. 132 Squadron RAF
 * No. 681 Squadron RAF


 * RAF at RAF Sek Kong
 * No. 80 Squadron RAF

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 * Indian Air Force
 * No.1 Squadron, IAF
 * No.2 Squadron, IAF
 * No.3 Squadron, IAF
 * No.4 Squadron, IAF
 * No.6 Squadron, IAF
 * No.7 Squadron, IAF
 * No.8 Squadron, IAF
 * No.9 Squadron, IAF
 * No.10 Squadron, IAF
 * No.12 Squadron, IAF
 * No.14 Squadron, IAF
 * No.15 Squadron, IAF
 * No.16 Squadron, IAF
 * No.101 Squadron, IAF
 * No.1 Service Flying and Training School, Ambala
 * Conversion Training Unit IAF

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 * Indonesian Air Force

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In the late ’40s Irish Air Force purchased some Spitfires, in its de-navalised Seafire model, and were at once very popular with the crews. This prompted the purchase of the two seat trainer version, the Spitfire T9, which served between 1951 and 1961.
 * Irish Air Corps
 * No 1. Fighter Squadron
 * Air Corps Training Wing

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Israel bought their Spitfire LF IXc from Czechoslovakia in 1948. In 1952 an additional 35 LF IXc/e aircraft were purchased from Italy, at which time the Spitfire in IDF service was known as "Yorek" (Eng. Spit). After a few years of operational use and major action during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War these Spitfires were sold to Burma.
 * Israeli Air Force
 * 101 Squadron
 * 105 Squadron
 * 107 Squadron

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 * Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force
 * Aeronautica Militare

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 * Royal Netherlands Air Force
 * No. 322 Squadron RAF
 * Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force - Postwar

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 * Royal New Zealand Air Force
 * No. 485 Squadron RNZAF
 * No. 486 Squadron RNZAF (486 Squadron was officially equipped with the Hawker Tempest. In September 1945 they handed their aircraft over to ex-Spitfire unit No. 41 Squadron RAF. They then picked up some Spitfire XVIs from No. 416 Squadron RCAF and ferried them to England.)

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 * Royal Norwegian Air Force
 * No. 331 Squadron RAF
 * No. 332 Squadron RAF
 * Photo Reconnaissance Wing No. 1

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 * Royal Pakistan Air Force

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 * Polish Air Forces in exile in Great Britain
 * 302 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Poznański"
 * 303 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Warszawski im. Tadeusza Kościuszki"
 * 306 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Toruński"
 * 308 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Krakowski"
 * 309 Dywizjon Współpracy Ziemi Czerwieńskiej
 * 315 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Dębliński"
 * 316 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Warszawski"
 * 317 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Wileński"
 * 318 Dywizjon Myśliwsko-Rozpoznawczy "Gdański"
 * Polski Zespół Myśliwski (also known as Skalski's Circus)


 * Portuguese Air Force

[[undefined|Southern Rhodesia]]

 * Southern Rhodesian Air Force
 * No. 1 Squadron
 * No. 2 Squadron

🇿🇦 [[south africa|South Africa]]

 * South African Air Force

The Soviet Union ran into immediate problems with friendly fire at the introduction of the Lend-Lease Spitfire Mk. Vb to combat operations. Deadly anti-aircraft artillery fire and neighboring VVS fighters took their toll. The problem was that the Spitfire too closely resembled the enemy's Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft. Making Spitfire unit markings more prominent didn't help (the 57th already displayed a yellow lightning bolt down the entire side of their fuselages), and the aircraft type was withdrawn from combat duties after only three months of service as part of defensive operations in the Kuban sector.


 * Soviet Air Force
 * 57th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (April–June 1943)
 * 821st Fighter Aviation Regiment (April–June 1943)

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Soon after the end of the Second World War, the Swedish Air Force equipped a photo reconnaissance wing, F 11 in Nyköping (just south of Stockholm), with 50 Mk XIXs, designated S 31. Several S 31 photographic missions in the late 1940s entailed flagrant violations of Soviet – and, at least once, Finnish – airspace in order to document activities at the air and naval installations in the Baltic and Kola regions. At that time, no Soviet fighter was able to reach the operational altitude of the S 31. No Swedish planes were lost during those clandestine operations. However, by the early 1950s, Soviet air defenses had become so effective that such practices had to cease. The S 31s were replaced by jet-powered SAAB S 29Cs in the mid-1950s.


 * Swedish Air Force
 * F 11 photo reconnaissance wing

[[undefined|Syria]]

 * Syrian Air Force

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 * Royal Thai Air Force
 * 1st Wing RTAF
 * 1st Squadron RTAF
 * 4th Wing RTAF
 * 41st Squadron (earlier called 1st Squadron, today is 401st Squadron.)

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 * Turkish Air Force


 * Royal Air Force
 * No. 1 Squadron RAF
 * No. 2 Squadron RAF
 * No. 4 Squadron RAF
 * No. 5 Squadron RAF
 * No. 6 Squadron RAF
 * No. 11 Squadron RAF
 * No. 16 Squadron RAF
 * No. 17 Squadron RAF
 * No. 19 Squadron RAF
 * No. 20 Squadron RAF
 * No. 26 Squadron RAF
 * No. 28 Squadron RAF
 * No. 32 Squadron RAF
 * No. 33 Squadron RAF
 * No. 34 Squadron RAF
 * No. 41 Squadron RAF
 * No. 43 Squadron RAF
 * No. 54 Squadron RAF
 * No. 56 Squadron RAF
 * No. 58 Squadron RAF
 * No. 60 Squadron RAF
 * No. 63 Squadron RAF
 * No. 64 Squadron RAF
 * No. 65 Squadron RAF
 * No. 66 Squadron RAF
 * No. 67 Squadron RAF
 * No. 69 Squadron RAF
 * No. 71 Squadron RAF
 * No. 72 Squadron RAF
 * No. 73 Squadron RAF
 * No. 74 Squadron RAF
 * No. 80 Squadron RAF
 * No. 81 Squadron RAF
 * No. 82 Squadron RAF
 * No. 87 Squadron RAF
 * No. 91 Squadron RAF
 * No. 92 Squadron RAF
 * No. 93 Squadron RAF
 * No. 94 Squadron RAF
 * No. 111 Squadron RAF
 * No. 118 Squadron RAF
 * No. 121 Squadron RAF
 * No. 122 Squadron RAF
 * No. 123 Squadron RAF
 * No. 124 Squadron RAF
 * No. 126 Squadron RAF
 * No. 127 Squadron RAF
 * No. 129 Squadron RAF
 * No. 130 Squadron RAF
 * No. 131 Squadron RAF
 * No. 132 Squadron RAF
 * No. 133 Squadron RAF
 * No. 134 Squadron RAF
 * No. 136 Squadron RAF
 * No. 137 Squadron RAF
 * No. 140 Squadron RAF
 * No. 145 Squadron RAF
 * No. 152 Squadron RAF
 * No. 153 Squadron RAF
 * No. 154 Squadron RAF
 * No. 155 Squadron RAF
 * No. 164 Squadron RAF
 * No. 165 Squadron RAF
 * No. 167 Squadron RAF
 * No. 183 Squadron RAF
 * No. 184 Squadron RAF
 * No. 185 Squadron RAF
 * No. 186 Squadron RAF
 * No. 208 Squadron RAF
 * No. 213 Squadron RAF
 * No. 222 Squadron RAF
 * No. 225 Squadron RAF
 * No. 229 Squadron RAF
 * No. 232 Squadron RAF
 * No. 234 Squadron RAF
 * No. 237 Squadron RAF
 * No. 238 Squadron RAF
 * No. 241 Squadron RAF
 * No. 242 Squadron RAF
 * No. 243 Squadron RAF
 * No. 249 Squadron RAF
 * No. 253 Squadron RAF
 * No. 256 Squadron RAF
 * No. 257 Squadron RAF
 * No. 266 Squadron RAF
 * No. 268 Squadron RAF
 * No. 269 Squadron RAF
 * No. 273 Squadron RAF
 * No. 274 Squadron RAF
 * No. 275 Squadron RAF
 * No. 276 Squadron RAF
 * No. 277 Squadron RAF
 * No. 278 Squadron RAF
 * No. 283 Squadron RAF
 * No. 287 Squadron RAF
 * No. 288 Squadron RAF
 * No. 289 Squadron RAF
 * No. 290 Squadron RAF
 * No. 501 Squadron RAF
 * No. 502 Squadron RAF
 * No. 504 Squadron RAF
 * No. 518 Squadron RAF
 * No. 519 Squadron RAF
 * No. 520 Squadron RAF
 * No. 521 Squadron RAF
 * No. 527 Squadron RAF
 * No. 541 Squadron RAF
 * No. 542 Squadron RAF
 * No. 543 Squadron RAF
 * No. 544 Squadron RAF
 * No. 545 Squadron RAF
 * No. 548 Squadron RAF
 * No. 549 Squadron RAF
 * No. 567 Squadron RAF
 * No. 577 Squadron RAF
 * No. 587 Squadron RAF
 * No. 595 Squadron RAF
 * No. 600 Squadron RAF
 * No. 601 Squadron RAF
 * No. 602 Squadron RAF
 * No. 603 Squadron RAF
 * No. 604 Squadron RAF
 * No. 607 Squadron RAF
 * No. 608 Squadron RAF
 * No. 609 Squadron RAF
 * No. 610 Squadron RAF
 * No. 611 Squadron RAF
 * No. 612 Squadron RAF
 * No. 613 Squadron RAF
 * No. 614 Squadron RAF
 * No. 615 Squadron RAF
 * No. 616 Squadron RAF
 * No. 631 Squadron RAF
 * No. 667 Squadron RAF
 * No. 680 Squadron RAF
 * No. 681 Squadron RAF
 * No. 682 Squadron RAF
 * No. 683 Squadron RAF
 * No. 684 Squadron RAF
 * No. 691 Squadron RAF
 * No. 695 Squadron RAF
 * No. 1435 Squadron RAF


 * Fleet Air Arm

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The Spitfire was one of only a few foreign aircraft to see service with the USAAF, equipping four groups in England and the Mediterranean. Spitfires were briefly flown by the US Navy after the Normandy landings to support cruisers and battleships bombarding land targets
 * United States Army Air Forces
 * 4th Fighter Group
 * 334th Fighter Squadron
 * 335th Fighter Squadron
 * 336th Fighter Squadron
 * 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
 * 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
 * 14th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
 * 31st Fighter Group
 * 2d Fighter Squadron
 * 4th Fighter Squadron
 * 5th Fighter Squadron
 * 52d Fighter Group
 * 307th Fighter Squadron
 * 308th Fighter Squadron
 * 309th Fighter Squadron
 * United States Navy
 * Cruiser Scouting Squadron Seven (VCS-7)

[[undefined|Yugoslavia]]



 * Yugoslav Squadrons in the RAF
 * No. 352 Squadron RAF
 * SFR Yugoslav Air Force
 * 1st Fighter Regiment (1945)
 * Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (1947–1948)
 * 103rd Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (1948–1951)
 * Liaison Squadron of 3rd Aviation Corps (1950-1952)