Hovercraft Museum

Hovercraft Museum

The Hovercraft Museum, located in Hampshire, England, is dedicated to hovercraft.

The museum has a large collection of various designs of hovercraft - numbering over sixty at the last count. Situated at HMS Daedalus by the large slipway from where many hovercraft have been tested, the museum collection includes SR-N5 and SR-N6 craft, one of which is fully operational. The collection currently contains the last two remaining SR-N4 craft, the world's largest hovercraft which have been laid up here since their retirement from cross-Channel services on 1st October 2000. The future of these vessels is uncertain, as they are privately owned and are possibly up for sale.

The museum houses the world's largest largest library of documents, publications, film, video, photographs and drawings on hovercraft, all of which is available for research by prior arrangement. Indeed many former hovercraft manufacturers have deposited their complete archives with the museum for safekeeping, thus swelling this important repository of information.

The museum also contains a large collection of original manufacturer's hovercraft models including the world's first working hovercraft model built by Christopher Cockerell. In the collection is also the first flying model of the SR-N1 hovercraft.

External links

* [http://hovercraft-museum.org/ Hovercraft Museum's official website]
* [http://www.mad-web.org/Galleries/index.php?item=236 Pictures of Hovershow, 2004]
* [http://www.mad-web.org/Galleries/index.php?item=1897 Pictures of Hovershow. 2005]
* [http://www.mad-web.org/Galleries/index.php?item=2457 Pictures of Hovershow. 2006]


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