List of Supermarine Spitfire operators

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[edit] Operators

Luftwaffe captured several Spitfire and used them to test and operational training duties.

[edit] Israel

Israeli Air Force

Israel bought their Spitfire IX from Czechoslovakia in 1948. After few years of operational use and major action during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Israeli Spitfires were sold to Burma.

[edit] Poland

Polish Air Forces in exile in Great Britain

PAF operated Spitfires in following units:

302 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Poznański"
303 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Warszawski im. Tadeusza Kościuszki"
306 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Toruński"
308 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Krakowski"
315 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Dębliński"
316 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Warszawski"
317 Dywizjon Myśliwski "Wileński"
318 Dywizjon Myśliwsko-Rozpoznawczy "Gdański"
Polski Zespół Myśliwski (also known as Skalski's Circus)

Soon after the end of the Second World War, the Swedish Air Force equipped a photo reconnaissance wing, F 11 in Nyköping (just south of Stockholm), with 50 Mk XIXs, designated S 31. Several S 31 photographic missions in the late 1940s entailed flagrant violations of Soviet – and, at least once, Finnish – airspace in order to document activities at the air and naval installations in the Baltic and Kola regions. At that time, no Soviet fighter was able to reach the operational altitude of the S 31. No Swedish planes were lost during those clandestine operations. However, by the early 1950s, Soviet air defenses had become so effective that such practices had to cease. The S 31s were replaced by jet-powered SAAB S 29Cs in the mid-1950s.