Spitfire Identification Charts

Spitfire identification charts for enthusiasts and airshow visitors: our own schematic charts of wingtips, propeller blades, radiators and the Mk V wing letters, a Spitfire or Hurricane sheet, a six-photo “which Spitfire is it?” practice with answers, and a one-page ID poster.

What’s inside:

- Start here: is it a Spitfire?

- Chart 1: wingtips (standard, clipped, extended)

- Chart 2: count the propeller blades (two to five)

- Chart 3: underneath, engines and wings

- Chart 4: Spitfire or Hurricane?

- Photo practice: which Spitfire is it? (2 pages, six photos)

- Answer key

- One-page ID poster

- Picture credits; credits, licence & sources

Pages: 12 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against named source pages from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the RAF Museum, Imperial War Museums, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Ingenium (Canada Aviation and Space Museum), the National Museum of the US Air Force and Britannica (checked 29 Oct 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page. Figures that can change, such as how many airworthy Hurricanes are left, are printed with that date.

Photos are public-domain wartime RAF and Royal Navy photographs (IWM collections, via Wikimedia Commons) and a CC0 Smithsonian photo; drawings, charts, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work, and aircraft drawings are stylised, not scale plans, with no real markings or logos. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Royal Air Force, the Ministry of Defence, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, Rolls-Royce, any successor to Supermarine or Vickers-Armstrongs, or any museum named. Names are used only to identify the aircraft, engines and organisations discussed.

Licence: personal use. Print as many copies as you need for yourself and your household. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For club, school or commercial use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind spitfire.aeroplanes.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.