{"id":373872,"date":"2026-02-22T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-supermarine-spitfires-built\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:00:17","slug":"how-many-supermarine-spitfires-were-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=373872","title":{"rendered":"How Many Supermarine Spitfires Were Built?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2025174\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-is-the-supermarine-spitfire-so-iconic\/\" >Supermarine Spitfire remains one of the most iconic and mass-produced aircraft ever developed<\/a><\/span>. It is regarded as the only British fighter able to meet the German Messerschmitt Bf109E on equal terms during the Battle of Britain, with outcomes of engagements often depending more on the quality of the pilots than the aircraft. While the United States produced far more military aircraft than any other country during <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"54975\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/wwii\/\"  >WWII<\/a><\/span>, more Spitfires were produced by Britain than any other WWII US military fighter or bomber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 20,000 Supermarine Spitfires were built, making it the most produced British aircraft in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,408,411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-history","category-royal-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373873,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373872\/revisions\/373873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}