Which year saw the last commercial hovercraft English Channel crossing?
Hovercraft Museum Hovercraft Museum The Hovercraft Museum, located in Lee-on-the-Solent in Hampshire, England, is a museum run by a registered charity dedicated to hovercraft. The museum has a large collection of over 60 hovercraft of various designs. Situated at HMS "Daedalus" by the large slipway from where many hovercraft have been tested, the museum collection includes SR.N5 and SR.N6 hovercraft. The collection currently contains the last remaining SR.N4 craft, the world's largest civil hovercraft which have been laid up in Lee-on-the-Solent since their retirement from cross-Channel services on 1 October 2000. The museum houses the world's largest library of documents, publications, film,
English Channel Dover and Boulogne but later also Ramsgate (Pegwell Bay) to Calais. The journey time Dover to Boulogne was roughly 35 minutes, with six trips per day at peak times. The fastest crossing of the English Channel by a commercial car-carrying hovercraft was 22 minutes, recorded by the "Princess Anne" MCH SR-N4 Mk3 on 14 September 1995, The first aircraft to cross the Channel was a balloon in 1785, piloted by Jean Pierre François Blanchard (France) and John Jeffries (US). Louis Blériot (France) piloted the first airplane to cross in 1909. The sport of Channel swimming traces its origins to the