A look at the iconic combat aircraft, 90 years on from its first flight, and why it was the people's plane.

A Spitfire replica will be on show to commemorate the aircraft's first flight in March 1936.

The Supermarine Spitfire single-seat fighter aircraft of the Second World War marks nine decades since its first flight in 1936.

Even nowadays, it is impossible for anyone who knows a bit of military aviation history to not recognize the famous Supermarine Spitfire from WWII, the aircraft that fought in the Battle of Britain, ...

A replica British Spitfire fighter is on display in London ahead of the 75th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, D-Day landings. The British used the Spitfire throughout the war, and the replica is one ...

Two British aviation enthusiasts will fly a newly restored Spitfire 27,000 miles around the world in the first trip of its kind. Pilots Steve Brooks, 58, from Burford, Oxfordshire, and Matt Jones, 45, ...

Piloted by Steve Boultbee-Brooks and Matt Jones—co-owners of the Boultbee Flight Academy, a Chichester, U.K.-based training school dedicated to Spitfires—the legendary British plane was discovered in ...

(AP) A search team led by a British aviation enthusiast arrived in Myanmar on Sunday to begin a dig they hope will unearth dozens of rare British Spitfire fighter planes said to have been buried in ...