air-cushion vehicle

Of that day when I saw him in 1967, Suitor’s main memory is of an air-cushion vehicle hovercraft, skimming over the Mall carrying the day’s VIP, Alan Boyd, the first U.S. secretary of transportation.

The preferred generic phrase was "air-cushion vehicle"; others used "sea-saucer" until the lower-case "hovercraft" took over.

Because a hovercraft is a vehicle that glides over a smooth surface by riding on a cushion of air, it is also called an air-cushion vehicle, or ACV.

Los Angeles is planning an air-cushion vehicle route that by 1973 will link L.A.

MHV's air-cushion vehicle, the Spectra I, looks something like a funland bump car with a big fan on the back.