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Reply To: British aircraft production totals: Supermarine Spitfire- Boulton Paul Sidestrand

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Cranswick
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Very interesting list. I think your Hawker Tempest total is inflated, although I don’t know what criteria you applied to rebuilt aircraft.

All the TT.5s (81) were refurbished and modified airframes from existing RAF stocks. All the 313 Tempest IIs supplied to India and Pakistan were either direct from RAF stocks (by my reckoning 200) or ex -RAF aircraft refurbished (113) and sold to those countries.

So the total of original airframes built looks like 1399 to me.