James' Hovercraft Site: Vickers-Armstrong VA-3 Memorabilia

James' Hovercraft Site

James' Hovercraft Site: Vickers Armstrong VA-3

Share on Facebook
Subscribe via RSS

FAQ and Special Requests

References & Bibliography

YouTube Channel

JHS Concorde Site

Build a Hovercraft (external)

How a Hovercraft Works

Hovercraft Trade

Buy a Hovercraft

Hovercraft Advertisements

Hover-related Products

World Hoverports

Dover and its Hoverports

Dover Hoverport Demolition

Solent Hoverports

Pegwell Bay Hoverport

Calais Hoverport

Boulogne Hoverport

SRN4 Items of Interest

1982 Hoverspeed Brochure

BHC SRN4 Info booklet

BHC Promotional Leaflet

SRN4 Features Tour

SRN4 Systems Tour

SRN4 Cockpit Tour

Video Pages

Videos Overview

AP1-88: Ryde/Southsea

BHT-130 Ryde/Southsea

SRN4: Swift Flight Deck

SRN4: Goodwin Sands

SRN4: HS Engineering

SRN4: Last Days of Service

SRN6: Solent Flyabout

Craft Information & Photo Galleries

Vickers VA.3

Westland/BHC SRN2

Westland/BHC SRN3

BHC SRN4 (Mountbatten)

BHC SRN5 (Warden)

BHC SRN6 (Winchester)

BHC BH7 (Wellington)

Hovermarine HM2

Vosper Thornycroft VT-2

N500 (SEDAM Naviplane)

BHC/Hoverwork AP1-88

Air Vehicles Tiger 12

Hoverwork BHT-130

Pat's Galleries

Tiger 4 in Antarctica

ASRH(GB)'s Osprey 5

BAA's Hoverguard 80

Military Hovercraft

Hovershow 2009

Paper Hovercraft

Model Hovercraft

LDLines Incat 112

Site Links

About Me and JHS

Get Adobe Reader!

Hover Aid | Hover DVD Shop | Model Hovercraft Assoc. | Bartie's Hovercraft | The Hovercraft Museum

Link to this Page | Special Requests | Questions or Feedback?

If you have any comments or suggestions about this site I'd like to hear from you! If you'd like me to get back to you, please include an email address (I'm afraid I won't be able to get in touch by phone). If you have any photos or videos or stories you'd like to have put on the site of hovercraft or experiences/events around hovercraft, please tell me and I'll gratefully get back to you.

All fields are optional. No details will ever be passed on for marketing purposes etc.. Fields marked with a * are required to be filled in for you to receive a reply.

If your enquiry is regarding purchasing a hovercraft, please take a look at the Buy a Hovercraft page before contacting me, as the information you require may be provided by the companies listed.

IMPORTANT: If your request is time sensitive, e.g. for a magazine article, publication, school project, etc., please tell me the timescale so I can prioritize my reply. In the meantime, try these three great resources: Hovercraft FAQ, Build at Hovercraft and "Designing and building a miniature air- cushioned vehicle for use on water". It may take me a while to get back to you (maybe months, sorry!) if you don't specify a time period, but rest assured I will reply when I can.

Name *
Email *
Country

Message *

Please enter the number you see into the box below for validation purposes

Please note that I cannot reply to you if you don't give a valid email address. If you send pictures, videos, photos or information to be hosted at James' Hovercraft Site, the original copyright and ownership of the material will remain yours and a credit to yourself will be shown next to the material you have provided. Any material you supply to be included in this website is much appreciated, thank you very much for your time and efforts in continuing to make this site a valuable resource for fellow viewers!

VA-3 Service Memorabilia, First Day Certificates and Trials

Images kindly sent by Nick Gurney

Stop Press!

Not for publication please, until July 20th 1962.

Hovercraft uses TV as "Rear mirror"; from the Pye Group, Cambridge.

Preparing for the first flights

Note to Editors and Journalists from Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., 18th July 1962

Congratulations!

A certificate signed by the captain of the first flight out by VA-3 from Rhyl to Wallasey; certifying Mr. Harry Parry, chairman of Tourism at Rhyl UDC, as having travelled by VA-3 "Hovercoach" across the Dee estuary.

Vickers-Armstrong VA3 Hovercraft at Rhyl, welcoming committee

Welcome to Rhyl!

A group of officials including Mr. Harry Parry (in white) greet the crew of VA3-001 upon its arrival at Rhyl in 1962.

Vickers-Armstrong VA3 Hovercraft welcoming committee at Rhyl

	Ready Prepared for trial at Itchen, one of the bases of Vickers-Armstrong Ltd.
	Full speed ahead High-speed trials on the Solent
	Cross-waves The VA.3 on choppy seas undergoing cross-tide trials
	Cruising Cruising off Netley Beach
	Amphibian The VA-3 proves its true amphibian nature using its two turbo-props to get it onto land

Page updated: 08/15/2010

For best viewing, use Windows Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla Firefox 3. Minimum Required Resolution: 800x600. Recommended resolution: 1024x768 or higher with browser font size at default. Resolutions smaller or font sizes larger than the above will result in incorrect display of text and images.

James' Hovercraft Site is not affiliated in any way with The Hovercraft Museum, Hoverspeed, Sea Containers or British Airways. The intent of the two sites (JHS Concorde Site and James' Hovercraft Site) is for them to be built up by contributions from viewers: photos, pictures, data, information, stories, video captures and more are all very welcome. If you have any comments, questions or issues regarding this website, its content, or anything about hovercraft, please use the "Questions or Feedback about this Site or Page " link at the top-right of each page.

Website design, layout, background and non page-credited images, including main logo are © James Rowson 1999 - 2010. If I have missed crediting an image that is not mine, I apologise, please contact me using the contact form regarding the matter. If you wish to publish images or information credited to a person or publishers that aren't myself, I can try to get their contact details for you, otherwise I wouldn't be able to personally grant you permission to use such data.

James' Hovercraft Site is not responsible for the content of externally linked pages and websites.