Hovercraft - first public scheduled service

Hovercraft - first public scheduled service
Who
Unknown
Where
Dee estuary
When
20 July 1962
The first hovercraft public service was run across the Dee estuary between Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales and Wallasey, Merseyside, England by the 60 knot (111 km/h; 69 mph) 24-passenger Vickers-Armstrong VA-3 between 20 July and September 1962.