Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk XIII prototype L1004
The Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk XIII was a low-level photo-reconnaissance aircraft adapted from earlier Spitfire designs.
Key Specifications of the PR Mk XIII:
- Designation: PR Mk XIII
- Type Number: 367
- First Flight: August 1942 (L1004)
- Service Entry: April 1943
- Type: Low-level Photo-Reconnaissance Aircraft
- Span: 36 ft 10 in (11.23 m)
- Length: 29 ft 11 in (9.12 m)
- Height: 11 ft 5½ in (3.49 m) [Tail Up]
- Engine: Single-speed, single-stage 1,645 hp (1,227 kW) Merlin 32
- Weight:
- Empty: 5,085 lb (2,307 kg)
- Maximum Loaded: 6,500 lb (2,948 kg)
- Max Speed: 345 mph (555 km/h) at 10,000 ft (3,050 m)
- Service Ceiling: 37,000 ft (11,280 m)
- Range: 700 miles (1,126 km)
- Armament:
- Four 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns
- Cockpit: Unpressurized, fitted with internal bulletproof glass for pilot protection.
- Tailwheel: Fixed
- Camera Equipment:
- Two vertical F.24 cameras
- One oblique F.24 camera, ideal for reconnaissance photography.
- Propeller: de Havilland, three-blade, constant-speed, variable-pitch Type 5/39.
- Radio Equipment: TR.1133
- Production: 18 aircraft were produced as conversions from earlier Spitfire models.