Supermarine Swift - Survivors
The Swift, perhaps because of its poor reputation in early service, has not fared well in retirement. Only four Swifts appear to have been preserved plus a Swift ancestor (the type 510) and assorted airframe sections.
Complete aircraft
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
VV106 | Type 510/517 | Fleet Air Arm Museum, (stored), RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset | 25/10/2024 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
WK275 | F.4 | Tim Wood, Lake District area, Cumbria | 08/08/2022 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
WK277 | FR.5 | Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire | 03/12/2020 |
WK281 | FR.5 | Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Tangmere, West Sussex | 02/12/2020 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
XF114 (ex G-SWIF) | F.7 | Solent Sky, Southampton, Hampshire | 15/01/2022 |
Nose/cockpit/other sections
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
Simulator (WK272?) | F.4 | Solent Sky, Southampton, Hampshire | 05/02/2022 |
WK198 | F.4 | Privately owned, Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey | 25/10/2024 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
Simulator | FR.5 | Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire | 02/04/2009 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
XF113 | F.7 | Boscombe Down Aviaton Collection, Old Sarum Airfield, Wiltshire | 30/03/2023 |
The nose at Southampton was used as a synthetic procedures trainer; the actual identity of the original aircraft it came from is a little unclear (at one point it was even thought that it was from VV119, one of the prototypes) but the museum have narrowed it down to either WK272 or WK282 based on the date of manufacture.