ABOUT SPITFIRES.COM

We are a company of passionate Supermarine Spitfire experts who believe it is essential to keep Spitfires flying in order to commemorate the iconic aircraft’s exceptional World War 2 history, first imortalised through victory in the Battle of Britain.

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Set up in 2010 Spitfires.com, formerly Boultbee Flight Academy, has become a leader in the Spitfire world creating a number of industry reforming regulatory changes and successfully delivering some 'world first' Spitfire experience products and events. We were, for example, the first company in the world to gain Academy status allowing us to train Spitfire pilots in two seat spitfires for remuneration. We created the mechanism and subsequently were the first company in the world approved to take paying passengers in the back of a two seat Spitfires for Spitfire flight experiences. We also hold a world record as the first company to successfully fly a Spitfire around the world, the Silver Spitfire.

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At Spitfires.com we offer members of the public the opportunity to experience a flight in a two seat Spitfire from £2975. We offer training to pilots who want to learn to fly the Spitfire. We have the world’s only 100% original cockpit Spitfire simulator so non-pilots can have the experience of flying a single seat Spitfire. We offer opportunities to fly in formation alongside a Spitfire. And we can display the Spitfire at Airshows or private events such as weddings and funerals. Backing up all of this flying activity we have a very experienced inhouse engineering team who conduct all of the maintenance required to keep these Spitfires in the air. Our Spitfires are all original WW2 veterans each with varying amounts of wartime history and now maintained to a level comfortably higher than they ever have been before. We fly from seven locations around the United Kingdom and Channel Islands, always from airfields with their own wartime history, and selected for the enhancement of the experience we offer. This could mean flying to the White Cliffs of Dover from the grass runways at our headquarters at Goodwood Aerodrome, to flying over the Lake District from our North of England base at Leeds East, to flying the Spitfire through the Highlands from our Scotland base in Perth, or simply flying closer to home in our bases at Solent, Dunkeswell, Jersey or Bournemouth.

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Whichever Spitfire experience you choose, from the flight of a lifetime in a two seat Spitfire to a display for your daughter’s wedding, you’ll be looked after by our customer service focused team of office staff, pilots, operations staff, engineers and volunteers. But don’t take our word for it - see the reviews below which have earnt us five stars and a Travellers' Choice Award from Trip Advisor year after year.