The Airship Development AD1 was a British non-rigid gas-filled advertising airship. The airship had a envelope made by the Reginald Foster Dagnall Company of

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. The airship,

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''G-FAAX'', was erected at the old Cramlington Airship Station near

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where it was test flown on 6 November 1929. It was powered by a

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four-cylinder piston engine mounted on a three-seater underslung car. The AD1 was used for advertising and had a 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.

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