Z997

Publications produced and deposited by the Airship Heritage Trust and other deposited material

1989-

From: 1989

Accession numbers 8019, 8085 and 10056

Following the closure of the Royal Airship Works at Cardington in 1936, it was the forethought of employee Leslie Speed, who worked on the airship programme, to salvage and store many of the original records, artefacts and photographs. The Airship Heritage Trust (AHT) was originally founded by relatives of the 1921-1936 airship programme as the Friends of Cardington Airship Station (F.O.C.A.S.) in the spring of 1987. In May 1994 F.O.C.A.S. changed its name to the Airship Heritage Trust. The Trust continues to maintain, and make additions to, the original collection and has the following objectives: - to promote the study of the history of airships and present the results to the public - to stimulate public interest in the role of Cardington as an airship base and in the conservation of the principal buildings thereof - establish a National Airship and Balloon Museum at Cardington The collection is now based on the site of the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden, Bedfordshire.

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civil airships, general, R101, CARDINGTON