{"id":431651,"date":"2026-05-18T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spitfire-reborn-90-years-first-flight\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:23:10","slug":"90-years-after-its-first-flight-the-spitfire-is-set-to-be-reborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=431651","title":{"rendered":"90 Years After Its First Flight, The Spitfire Is Set To Be Reborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supermarine Spitfire is arguably one of the most famous aircraft in the history of<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"33261\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/military\/\"  >military<\/a><\/span> aviation. After first flying 90 years ago, back in March of 1936, the British-built plane became one of the most defining aircraft of the Second World War when the conflict broke out three years later. Alongside the Hawker Hurricane, the Spitfire played a particularly important role as a fighter and interceptor aircraft in the Battle of Britain in 1940.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first replica from the new line only cost about a quarter of what it would take to buy an original example today.<\/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":[396,120,408,412,411,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-history","category-military","category-royal-air-force","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431651","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=431651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431653,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431651\/revisions\/431653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}