USB hub with iPad Air

No problem. I contacted Apple about joining your recommendation to my iPad via an USB-C to Lightning cable, and they said it would work. I need a powered hub anyway, so I've found one elsewhere. But the biggest hurdle was coming to realise that USB hubs do work with iPads provided the USB-C to Lightning adapter, and you helped with this, so thanks.

But I see now that Thunderbolt 3rd generation is the same as USB-C. So these hubs ought to actually work with my iPad as I could just connect the hub to a Lightning to USB-C adapter and then plug that adapter into the iPad, right?

I mean that I have the iPad Air 10.5 inch, the one advertised on the Apple website under "iPad Air". It has a Lighting port, not a Thunderbolt one; I think Thunderbolt and Lightning are different. Your recommendations don't specify that they work with iPads, they seems to just be for MacBooks. I've looked for hours and can't find any of this wide range of options you talk about, could you direct me?