page_title: Supermarine Scimitar
section_title: Survivors
hierarchical_section_title: Supermarine Scimitar / Survivors
caption_attribution_description: Supermarine F-1 Scimitar
context_page_description: The Supermarine Scimitar was a British naval strike aircraft operated by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. The prototype for the eventual production version flew in January 1956 and production aircraft were delivered in 1957. It saw service with the Royal Navy from 1958 until 1969, replaced in service by the Blackburn Buccaneer.
context_section_description: Scimitar F1 XD220 at the Empire State Aerosciences Museum, formerly at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York, United States (on loan from the Fleet Air Arm Museum).
  Scimitar F1 XD317 at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, England.
  Scimitar F1 XD332 at the Solent Sky Museum, Southampton, England.
caption: XD220 at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in 2009
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