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Princess Margaret at the Hovercraft Museum in May 2008. The two remaining Mk.III examples of the craft (GH-2006 Princess Margaret and GH-2007 Princess Anne) were bought by Wensley Haydon-Baillie for £500,000 and were stored at Lee-on-Solent, next to the Hovercraft Museum.
By summer 2016, it was established that The Princess Anne would be saved and refurbished as a permanent exhibit at the Hovercraft Museum. The fate of The Princess Margaret, which was not in such sound structural repair, was announced on 30 May 2018 - usable parts will be moved to The Princess Anne and the craft will be scrapped.
02 – GH-2005 Princess Anne, Seaspeed – SRN4,converted to Mk.III specification in 1978 03 – N500-02 Ingénieur Jean Bertin , Seaspeed – from 1977. One ex-Seaspeed SR.N4 craft, GH-2005 The Princess Anne , remains intact and is stored at the Hovercraft Museum , Lee-on-Solent.
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SR.N4 Princess Margaret at the mouth of the Western Docks in Dover, 1998. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, British inventor Sir Christopher Cockerell had, in cooperation with British aerospace manufacturer Saunders-Roe, developed a pioneering new form of transportation, embodied in the form of the experimental SR.N1 vehicle, which became widely known as the hovercraft. [2]
The fourth episode of The Crown is a Princess Margaret tour de force, showing how the Queen’s sister adapted the style of royalty into a lifestyle.
Princess Margaret did tour the U.S. in the 1960s, but never appeared on a late night show. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...
A number of 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 manufacturers' hovercraft models including the world's first working hovercraft model built by Christopher Cockerell .