Griffon Hoverwork has rebranded as Griffon Marine, reflecting the company's extensive skills, core competencies, and commitment to maritime excellence. With over six decades of expertise in amphibious and high-speed marine vessel design, build, and support, this new branding highlights the company's enduring capabilities and world-class service offerings.

Griffon Hoverwork is pleased to announce that its new class of Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), the Wyvern, has been granted Approval in Principle (AiP) by Lloyd's Register. This certification encompasses critical aspects of the craft's design, including lifting systems, stability, piping systems, hull structure, and mechanical and electrical systems.

Griffon Hoverwork is proud to announce a corporate partnership with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA). The announcement was made during a festive Christmas staff event held at Griffon’s Portchester facility, bringing together employees and guests to celebrate the season alongside the spirit of giving and community support.

Griffon Hoverwork is pleased to announce a leadership transition as part of our ongoing commitment to excellence and innovation. After over 15 successful years as Managing Director, Adrian Went has decided to step back from his day-to-day responsibilities.

Griffon Hoverwork has won Maritime UK Solent’s International Partnership & Global Trade Award for 2024. This award, from the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), celebrates businesses working in the Solent region that demonstrate outstanding achievements in the global marketplace, involving a successful export strategy that underpins growth and the ability to innovate.

Griffon Hoverwork Technical Support Engineers regularly deploy around the global to support our customers with all of their specialist engineering requirements.  Recently a large team worked in Japan for 6 weeks to support Oita Daiichi Hoverdrive to repair Oita Prefecture’s 12000TD hovercraft.

Griffon Hoverwork, the leading manufacturer of hovercraft, is celebrating  a major milestone for its Type Rating Certificate (High-Speed Craft – Hovercraft) training course, used by clients around the world and now officially accredited by the UK Chamber of Shipping.

Griffon Hoverwork's experienced design and engineering team has delivered a powerful and tactical solution by extending the life of the Royal Marines Offshore Raiding Craft (ORC). The craft was upgraded and reconfigured to the latest military requirements.

Griffon Hoverwork is proud to announce that it has signed the Armed Forces Covenant, a national pledge to support the Armed Forces community. 

Griffon Hoverwork displayed a detailed 50th scale model of the Wyvern – our new class of Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) at the recent Combined Naval Event (CNE) in Farnborough, UK this week.

The Canadian Coast Guard has asked for engineering design consultancy services from Griffon Hoverwork to update their current air cushion vehicle design and to conduct feasibility studies into alternative power plant options.

Griffon Hoverwork wins new order from the Maritime Branch of the Polish Border Guard for the purchase of two hovercraft for a patrol and intervention role, to be delivered in 2024.

Griffon Hoverwork announced the name and details of its new class of Landing Craft Air Cushion: The Wyvern. With an audio-visual presentation on their stand, Griffon Hoverwork unveiled the biggest, fastest and most efficient LCAC ever designed.

We are excited to announce that we will be attending once again, the UK's biggest defence and security exhibition, DSEI. The exhibition is held at ExCel London from 12th-15th September 2023.

Griffon Hoverwork has recently taken a lease on premises at Trafalgar Wharf, in Porchester, and is looking for aluminium fabricators to work on its recent order for three new hovercraft.

Griffon Hoverwork are proud to announce winning one of our biggest ever deals, worth more than £25 million, to supply three 12000TD craft to Japan.

Griffon Hoverwork's training team led by Captain Lynn White has recently completed the delivery of Type Rating training on large hovercraft to the Korean Coast Guard.

Griffon Hoverwork is pleased to have been announced as the winner of a 6 ½ year Ministry of Defence contract to support watercraft used by the Royal Marines.

On Wednesday 26 June Griffon Hoverwork joined with other key hovercraft organisations, past and present, at The Hovercraft Museum in an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of SRN4 "The Princess Anne" currently held there.

Hovertravel has been awarded Leader status by the Department for Transport as part of the Inclusive Transport Leaders Scheme for their ten-minute hovercraft service between The Isle of Wight and the UK mainland.

Yesterday saw the launch and sea trials of a Griffon 2000TD hovercraft in Nigeria. This is a project that the BISEN consortium members have been working on with its clients for around five years to navigate the challenges of licencing, exporting, customs clearances, commissioning and finally seeing the first hovercraft in action on the waterways.

The British Government’s new Standard Buyer Loan Guarantee is explained here and what this means for hovercraft buyers.

The importance of using the correct fuel to reduce the long term costs of your hovercraft are explained...

Alongside the standard maintenance & service schedule that is supplied with each Hovercraft, GHL has also developed a Planned Maintenance System (PMS) for clients to help save money and improve hovercraft availability.

Following an extensive auditing process Griffon Hoverwork have been awarded an outstanding result. The article explains why this is important and what this means for international trade.

Griffon Hoverwork explain how to make a hovercraft more electrically efficient with the latest solutions

An Interview with Our Korean Sales Agent Sean Shin (신동한) from DK M-Tech

Hovercraft Propeller Life Cycle is explained in this article about how to optimise performance and adhere to OEM time limits for safety on operations.

In this article, Griffon Hoverwork interview Satinder Pal Singh Ahuja, the chairman of Machinery Sales Corporation, Mumbai. We discuss the 8000TD hovercrafts currently used by the Indian Coastguard and plans for the future.

Design and Support Services have prepared a package to allow operators to convert to MT propellers, as is standard on all new hovercraft.

Pushing the realms of possibility for humans, a team from Norway utilised hovercraft to collect data around the arctic ocean.

For those that are fans of the Griffon Hoverwork brand and the enduring spirit behind our innovation, we are pleased to say that the hovercraft museum will soon be stocking GHL branded gear.