Type
Type numbers
Role
Introduced (First Flight)
Number built
Retired
Surviving aircraft
Notes/last known whereabouts (W)
Attacker B
392 397-8 500 513-6 519 527 538 542
Fighter
1950 (1946/07)
182 / 3 prototypes
1964 (claimed)
1
WA473 transferred to the Fleet Air Arm Museum (FAAM) in 1961
Baby
-
Fighter
1918
1 prototype , 1 other aircraft
1918 (1918 (between February and the autumn of that year)
0
Maiden flight before November 1918.
Nighthawk (P.B.31E)
-
Fighter
1917
1 prototype
?
0
Modified from the P.B.29. Scrapped (July 1917).[1] 2 propellers (Solent Sky (SS))
Scimitar S
505 508 522-3 529 537 539 543 544 555—6 558 560-7 572 574-6 660–667
Fighter
1957 (1956/01)
76
1969
3
XD220 (Empire State Aerosciences Museum ); XD317 (FAAM); XD332 (SS)[ 2]
Seafang C
382 396
Fighter
1946
18
?
0[2]
VB895 flown May 1947, during deck landing trials
Seafire C
338 340 355 357-8 377 384 386 388 395 506
Fighter
1942 (1942/01)
2,646
1954
8
SW800 (Adelaide); PR376 (Myanmar); PP972 (UK, privately owned (PO)); SX336 (UK, PO); SX137 (FAAM); PR503 (US, PO); VP441 (US, PO); PR451 (Military Museums, Canada)
Sea King
-
Fighter
1920 (1920/?)
2
1921
0
The second aircraft (the Sea King II) was converted to become the Sea Lion II in 1922.[ 3]
Spiteful
371 383 393
Fighter
1944 (1944/06)
19 / 3 prototypes
scrapped from 1948 onwards
0
NN664 first flew in January 1945
Spitfire
300 305 311-2 323 329-32 335-7 341-6 348-56 359-70 372-6 378-9 385 387 389 390 394 501-2 509 518
Fighter
1938 (1936/03)
20,351
1961
201 (see Notes )
Condition
Number
Airworthy
75
Static display
63
Restoration / stored
63
Total
201
Swift S
510 517 520 528 531-2 535 541 546-52 557
Fighter
1954 (1948/12)
197
?
6
G-SWIF (SS);[ 4] VV106 (FAAM); WK198 (Brooklands Museum , Surrey, UK, fuselage); WK275 (Jet Art Aviation?); WK277 (Newark Air Museum ); WK281 (Tangmere Military Aviation Museum , Sussex, UK);
Type 224 S
224
Fighter
1934 (1934/02)
1 prototype
1937
0
Used as a target and destroyed in 1937.
Type 324, 325 S
324 325
Fighter
1938
0
-
-
Design proposals (1938)
Type 525 C
525 526
Fighter
1954 (1954/04)
1 prototype
1955
0
Crashed 1955
Type 545 C
545 554
Fighter
1952 (built but never flew)
1
1952
0
Scrapped (1967)
Channel
-
Reconnaissance and patrol
1919
10
?
0
One aircraft was retired from service with the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service in 1928.[ 6]
Nanok; Solent C
-
Reconnaissance and patrol
1927 (1927/06)
1
1934
0
Renamed as the Supermarine Solent in 1928 (scrapped in 1934)
Scapa S
221 226 229 235 303
Reconnaissance and patrol
1935 (1932/?)
15
1939
?
Retired in 1939. See also "As of 3 September 1939 the RAF strength return reported... 4 Scapa under Training/Communication heading. Down to 2 Scapa on 1 May 1940 and 0 on 3 September 1940."[3]
Scarab no article
-
Reconnaissance and patrol
?
12
?
?
Delivered by sea to the Spanish Royal Naval Air Service (summer 1924)[4]
Scylla s
-
Reconnaissance and patrol
?
?
?
?
Taxi trials (assumed to have occurred late Feb/early March 1924)Andrews & Morgan, p.88
Seal II
-
Reconnaissance and patrol
1921
1
?
?
One of a number of aircraft sold to the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (November 1921)
Seagull (1921) B
223 228
Reconnaissance and patrol; surveying
1921 (1921/05)
34
? (UK); 1936 (Australia)
1 (nose cone at SS)
A9-1 – A9-9 (Australia)
Seagull (1948) S
347 381 504 530
Reconnaissance and patrol
1948 (1948/07)
3
1952
0
All three aircraft scrapped in 1952
Seamew
-
Reconnaissance and patrol
1928 (1928/01)
2
1930
0
Both aircraft scrapped in 1930 after an incident in April that year
Sea Otter C
309 399 503
Reconnaissance and patrol
1944 (1938/09)
292
?
0
The Fleet Air Arm Museum (Australia) has the nose section of JN200
Sheldrake C
-
Reconnaissance and patrol
1927 (1927/?)
1
?
?
Present at the MAEE (Felixstowe, UK) in January 1928[5]
Southampton C
171 184-5 188-90 233-4
Reconnaissance and patrol
1925 (1925/03)
83
?
1[6]
Fuselage at Hendon
Stranraer
230 237 304
Reconnaissance and patrol
1937 (1934/07)
57
1958?
1
920/CF-BXO (Hendon); parts of a second aircraft (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Walrus/Seagull V
236 307 315 320 326 507
Reconnaissance and patrol
1935 (1933/06)
740
?
4
A2-4 (Hendon); HD874 (RAAF Museum ); L2301 (FAAM); W2718 (PO, Duxford?)
Air Yacht
-
Civil
1930 (1930/02)
1
1933
0
Crashed in January 1933, sold for scrap the following year.
Commercial Amphibian
-
Civil
1920 (1920/09)
1
1920
0
Destroyed in an accident in October 1920
Giant S
179
Civil
-
0
-
-
-
Sea Eagle S
-
Civil
1923 (1923/06)
3
1928
0
The wooden hull of the last surviving aircraft was burnt in 1954
Sparrow
-
Civil
1924 (1924/09)
1
1930
0
The Sparrow was rebuilt in 1926 as a monoplane and re-designated Sparrow II, the aircraft was scrapped in 1933
Swan
-
Civil
1926
1
1927
0
Scrapped (autumn 1928)
S.4
-
Racer
1925 (1925/08)
1
1925
0
Crashed at sea (October 1925)
S.5 C
-
Racer
1927 (1927/06)
3
1929
?
An S.5 took part in the 1929 Schneider Trophy contest
S.6 (S.6A)
186
Racer
1929 (1929/?)
2
1931
1
N248 (SS)
S.6B B
187
Racer
1931 (1931/?)
2
1931
1
S1595 (the Schneider trophy 1931 winning aircraft, Science Museum (London) )
Sea Lion I
-
Racer
1919
1
1919
0
Scrapped in 1928.[ 8]
Sea Lion II C
-
Racer
1922
1
-
0
Re-engined and renamed as the Sea Lion III in 1923.
Sea Lion III S
-
Racer
1923
1
1923
0
Participated in the Schneider Trophy context September 1923 (position—3rd)[7] Transferred to the Royal Air Force in 1923.
Sea Urchin s
-
Racer
-
0
-
-
Unbuilt.[ 10]
Type B.12/36 S
316 317 318 321
Bomber
-
0
-
0
2 aircraft were being built when they were destroyed by enemy action (September 1940).[ 11]
Supermarine Type 322 B
322 380
Naval torpedo, dive bomber and reconnaissance aircraft
1943 (1943/02)
2
?
?
Used in 1946 for chase in the low-speed handling trials
Supermarine Type 553 S
553
Experimental aircraft
-
-
-
-
Proposed Mach 2 research aircraft project