An older photo from 2011 here. This is my original childhood hovercraft when it was on sale at the place I sold it to. I had replaced the steering vanes through basic trading on the old forums. I also had to acquire a recon bike that I can't remember when or how that got lost sometime back in the mid-to-late 1980's.
There are many hovercraft out there, no doubt. I wonder where this ended up going? The only unique identifying "mine" parts might be the stressed upper hatch plastic by the forward window. This is a part that is likely easier to replace and has been already. I think my inner recon sled launching mechanism may also have had a snapped or bent portion. The stickers likely fell off by now, or just removed and replaced.
There was one time, back in the latter half of the 1980's I was bringing my hovercraft over to do battle with someone else who had a Cobra Moray. I don't remember much of that battle. I do remember using the wheel house's windscreen area as a hand hold while carrying my hovercraft..... and it came apart. On the street as I was walking. The whole upper deck separating from the bottom.
This was a little harder and slower to happen of a trade/sell thing for me as it was one of the bigger gifts from Grandparents. It might have just been a whatever pick out when my Grandparents picked it out from all the other things out there. Then again, Grandpa's World War 2 Navy experience on an L.S.T. may have made an amphibious vehicle a more attractive purchase. I will never know.
The hovercraft was often rolled around on the wood floor of my old room and slid under my bed. I used this as a headquarters or base, too. I did have the Headquarters play set but the set up time for play adventures seemed too long and involved to me in my younger days for some reason. The 1986 L.A.W. was used as a "base" quite often, too.
Then again, at that time, my G.I.Joe team consisted of 1986's Hawk, Sci-fi, Low Light, and Tiger Force Frostbite for the most part. Cutter, Tiger Force Tripwire, and Wet Suit were around, too. Eventually Budo, 1988 Storm Shadow, 1989 Snake Eyes and Stalker, joined in.