Canada
It is used in two versions by the Canadian Coast Guard. In the mid 1990s two AP1-88s, the AP1-88/200 and AP1-88/400, were ordered from GKN Westland Aerospace; the contract being awarded in 1996. The craft were built at Hike Metal Products in Wheatley, Ontario. The two 400 series were completed in August and December 1998.
- CCGS Waban-Aki, AP1-88/200
- CCGS Sipu Muin, AP1-88/400
- CCGS Siyay, AP1-88/400
Read more about this topic: British Hovercraft Corporation AP1-88
Famous quotes containing the word canada:
“Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)
“I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)