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The Slingsby SAH 2200 hovercraft is a small military hovercraft produced by Slingsby Amphibious Hovercraft Company of Kirkbymoorside, England, and used by the Finnish Border Guard.
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The SAH 2200 is a small military hovercraft powered by a single Cummins 6CTA-8-3M-1 diesel engine, and armed with a single 12.7mm machine gun.
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The Finland Frontier Guard acquired its first SAH 2200 in March 1993. Three more were ordered in February 1998 and delivered in late 1999. Engineering and Professional Services Inc. purchased Slingsby Advanced Composites Limited and will continue producing a version of the SAH 2200 hovercraft manufactured out of composit materials, now renamed the EPS SAH 2200. The EPS SAH 2200 will be built at the company’s facilities in Titusville, Florida, where EPS presently has under construction a number of larger EPS M-10 hovercraft for delivery commencing in 2009 to the Border Guard of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.