Spitfire Vc AA963 2
The Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vc (including the Mk Vc Trop) had the following technical specifications and features:
- Type No.: 349
- Wingspan: 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m)
- Length: 29 ft 11 in (9.12 m)
- Height: 11 ft 5½ in (at prop tip, tail up)
- Engine:
- Merlin 45 (1,440 hp / 1,074 kW, single-speed, single-stage supercharged)
- Merlin 46 (1,190 hp / 887 kW)
- Merlin 50 (1,230 hp / 917 kW)
- Merlin 50A (1,100 hp / 820 kW)
- Weight:
- Empty: 5,081 lb (2,305 kg)
- Max Loaded: 7,420 lb (3,346 kg)
- Maximum Speed: 371 mph (597 km/h) at 20,000 ft (6,095 m)
- Service Ceiling: 37,000 ft (11,260 m)
- Range: 470 miles (756 km)
- Fuel: 100 Octane
- Main fuselage tanks:
- Upper: 48 Imperial gallons
- Lower: 37 Imperial gallons (168 liters)
- Auxiliary tanks (optional):
- 30 Imperial gallons (136 liters),
- 90 Imperial gallons (409 liters), or
- 170 Imperial gallons (773 liters)
- A 29 Imperial gallon tank could be installed in the rear fuselage but only in conjunction with the 170 Imperial gallon auxiliary tank.
- Main fuselage tanks:
- Armament:
- Universal Wing Options:
- Eight 0.303-inch Browning machine guns
- Two 20 mm Hispano Mk I or Mk II cannon (120 rounds per gun) and four 0.303-inch Browning machine guns (350 rounds per gun)
- Four 20 mm Hispano Mk I or Mk II cannon (120 rounds per gun) with the ability to carry bombs: 250 lb (113 kg) or 500 lb (227 kg)
- Universal Wing Options:
- Cockpit: Unpressurized with internal bulletproof glass.
- Tailwheel: Fixed
- Propellers :
- Rotol three-blade, variable-pitch, constant-speed, Dural, Type RX 5/10 (10 ft 9 in diameter)
- de Havilland three-blade, variable-pitch, constant-speed, Hydromatic Type 5/39
- de Havilland three-blade, variable-pitch, constant-speed, bracket type
- Strengthened undercarriage for all versions.
- Tropical (Trop) Versions:
- Additional cockpit ventilator on the port side of the instrument coaming
- Radio Equipment: TR.9D, TR.1133, or TR.1143 & R5002
- Gunsight: GM.2 Reflector sight
- Production: 2,467 units