Silver Seafire Mk L2C


	Supermarine Seafire L2C
	The success of the Spitfire as a land based aircraft led the Royal Navy to enquire after its suitability as a carrier based aircraft as many of its own aircraft were inadequate to match the Luftwaffe. The Spitfire Mk V was to be the basis of the Navy's new carrier airpower. To assist the new 'Seafire' to take off from the short carrier decks they were fitted with four blade propellors and catapult spools to allow them to be launched from the deck. Firepower was to come from two 20mm Hispano cannons each with 60 rounds and four 0.303" Brownings each with 350 rounds installed in the wings. To facilitate a short landing they were fitted with an arrester hook which when lowered on landing was intended to catch a cable laid across the carrier deck, a practice still used today. The early marks of the Seafire did not however have folding wings, it would not be until the arrival of the Mk III that folding wings would allow more aircraft to be carried onboard the aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy.









Scale 1:72 Wingspan 6.25" (156 mm) Base size 7.67" (195 mm) square (No. 5) Weight not including base 7.8 ozs (219 grams)