PRODUCT >> 1000 TD

The 1000TD is the smallest craft in the Griffon range which is fitted with a heavy duty industrial diesel engine. Ideally suited to transporting up to 12 people (or a total payload of 825kg in its full cabin version or 1000kg in the flat/well deck version), this craft has been very successfully operated in the civil engineering support role, and the hydrographic and seismic survey roles. It has been purchased by water and power authorities and, in the military role, as a command centre for search and rescue (S & R), medical evacuation and flood relief.

Griffon Hovercraft Ltd. (GHL) was the first company in the world to fit a diesel engine into small to medium sized hovercraft (in a 1000TD in 1983), and this transformed the reliability of hovercraft overnight. Since that time, GHL has never again put petrol engines into a hovercraft because of the unreliability of the petrol engine's electrics in the harsh salt water/spray/weed/sand/mud environment in which most hovercraft work.