Airship Development AD1

The Airship Development AD1 was a British non-rigid gas-filled advertising airship. The airship had a 60,000 cuft envelope made by the Reginald Foster Dagnall Company of Guildford. The airship, registered G-FAAX, was erected at the old Cramlington Airship Station near Newcastle where it was test flown on 6 November 1929. It was powered by a 100 hp ABC Hornet four-cylinder piston engine mounted on a three-seater underslung car.

The AD1 was used for advertising and had a 76 by panel on each side for messages. It was dismantled after an accident in June 1931 when a storm tore it from its moorings and damaged the envelope.