what is it?
The Supermarine Seafang was a British Rolls-Royce Griffon–engined naval fighter aircraft designed by Supermarine to Air Ministry specification N.5/45. It was based on the Spiteful, which was a development of Supermarine's Griffon-engined Spitfire. By that time the design of the Spitfire was 10 years old, in a period of rapid technical development in aviation.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.7 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 80 years ago, in 1946.
- Top speed is 5.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.7 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.4× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1946
- number built
- 18
- role
- naval fighter
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- makers
- Supermarine
- engines
- 1× Rolls-Royce Griffon 89
- crew
- 1
- length
- 10.4 m
- wingspan
- 10.7 m
- height
- 3.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 4,740 kg
- top speed
- 764 km/h
- cruise speed
- 354 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 12,497 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q203181, Wikipedia: Supermarine Seafang (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.