Last SRN4 hovercraft at risk of scrapping - URGENT action reqd

[Harold Smith]

The Government's Homes and Communities Agency is effectively forcing the Hovercraft Museum Trust at Lee-On Solent to scrap the last two SRN4 hovercraft, as immortalised in the much-loved Airfix kit, to make way for housing, and have given them just 24 hours to do something about it.

Full details here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-35449474

The Trust have started a petition against this. If you want to help, please sign it and/or circulate it on social media. You might also consider contacting the HCA and the DCMS (Dept of Culture Media and Sport - responsible for 'heritage' issues) via e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.

The petition is here: https://www.change.org/p/homes-and-communities-agency-save-the-princess-anne-the-last-remaining-srn4-hovercraft-for-the-nation

Thanks for your time.

[DavidJC]

I've been round the museum on one of its Open Days and for what it is it's a good little museum and the two large hovercrafts are impressive in the extreme. It will be a sad day if the collection is broken up, let alone the scrapping of any of the exhibits.

 

The  museum occupies a tiny part of HMS Daedalus, a one time RNAS, and a huge amount of land. The town council/MoD/Government should be hanging their heads in shame; and all for housing that so many have voted against and don't want.

[John Symmons]

When will British bureaucrats & bureaucracy learn the lesson "History is worth saving" it makes me ashamed sometimes to be British when I hear of the heavy handed way that bureaucracy can run rough-shod over things,and I feel the SRN4 is another case in point. The Hovercraft was a British invention but the bureaucrats as usual never had the ba*** to capitalise on it and as usual it was left to the US.

This unfeeling British bureaucracy was one of the reasons I left the UK in 71 and again in 75, and on my visits back "home" over the years it seems that British society has only become more regulated, but I digress. At lest we can be greatfull for something; Airfix has survived. So come on all you Brtish Brits save YOUR heritage save the SRN4.

Remember we do this for fun   John the Pom

[Rael]

This is a sad case of simply not caring about the past. I love the SRN4 and remember seeing it just on Sunday in 007 Siamonds are forever. Good luck with the petition1