List of airships
The list of airships contains a chronological selection (after the first drive ) of airships ( blimps , semi-rigid blimps and airships ).
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Surname | First drive | Manufacturer | Remarks | image |
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Giffard I | September 24, 1852 | Henri Giffard | Steam powered propeller | |
La France | 1884 | Arthur Constantin Krebs | Electric drive | |
Wolfert | August 10, 1888 | Friedrich Hermann Wölfert | Driven by a petrol engine | |
Germany | circa 1897 | Friedrich Hermann Wölfert | Crashed on June 12, 1897 | |
Airship by David Schwarz | November 3, 1897 | David Black | All-metal shell, badly damaged on first flight | |
Santos-Dumont No. 1 | September 20, 1898 | Alberto Santos Dumont | ||
Santos-Dumont No. 3 | 1899 | Alberto Santos Dumont | ||
Santos-Dumont No. 6th | 1901 | Alberto Santos Dumont | ||
Pax | May 12, 1902 | Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão | Crashed on first flight | |
Bradsky | October 13, 1902 | Otokar from Bradsky-Laboun | Crashed on first flight | |
Lebaudy | October 25, 1902 | Lebaudy Frères | ||
Santos-Dumont No. 9 "La Baladeuse" | June 26, 1903 | Alberto Santos Dumont | ||
Santos Dumont No. 10 | 1903 | Alberto Santos Dumont | ||
LZ 2 | circa 1905 | Ferdinand von Zeppelin | ||
Patrie | November 16, 1906 | Lebaudy Frères | ||
Liberté | June 24, 1908 | Lebaudy Frères | ||
Gross-Base after MI | June 30, 1908 | Groß-Basenach | ||
Clément-Bayard No. 1 | October 28, 1908 | Astra Clément-Bayard | Later in Russian service as Berkut | |
LZ 5 | May 26, 1909 | Airship construction Zeppelin | Civil use | |
Erbslöh | August 20, 1909 | Oskar Erbslöh | Crash on July 13, 1910 | |
PL 1 | September 21, 1909 | August of Parseval | ||
PL 3 | September 21, 1909 | Aircraft company | Driven as an "experimental airship" as early as 1906 | |
MI Parseval ( PL 4 ) | November 26, 1909 | Austrian motor aircraft company | First airship of the Austro-Hungarian aviation troops | |
Zodiac III | circa 1909 | |||
Astra I , later Ville de Pau and Ville de Lucerne | circa 1909 | Astra Société de Construction Aéronautique | ||
F.1 "Leonardo da Vinci" | 1910 | Enrico Forlanini | ||
Clément-Bayard No. 2 | April 10, 1910 | Astra Clément-Bayard | ||
LZ 7 ( "Germany" ) | June 19, 1910 | Airship construction Zeppelin | Crashed on June 28, 1910 | |
Morning Post | September 14, 1910 | Lebaudy Frères | ||
Willow C | October 29, 1910 | Ernest Willows | ||
Clément-Bayard No. 4th | circa 1910 | Astra Clément-Bayard | ||
Siemens-Schuckert I. | January 23, 1911 | Siemens-Schuckertwerke | ||
LZ 14 | October 7, 1912 | Airship construction Zeppelin | First German naval airship | |
Pike | April 13, 1913 | Joseph Spiess | The only rigid airship built in France | |
SL II | February 28, 1914 | Schütte-Lanz | ||
PL 25 | February 25, 1915 | Aircraft company | Decommissioned on March 30, 1916 | |
LZ 104 ( L 59 ) | October 30, 1917 | Airship construction Zeppelin | Used as a German military airship; April 7, 1918, the Strait of Otranto crashed | |
LZ 121 "Nordstern" , later renamed " Méditerranée ". | June 8, 1921 | Airship construction Zeppelin | Transferred to France as a reparation payment | |
R38 (in the USA ZR-2 ) | June 23, 1921 | Short Brothers | ||
ZR-1 ( "USS Shenandoah" ) | September 4, 1923 | Naval Aircraft Factory | ||
LZ 126 , (in the USA ZR-3 or "USS Los Angeles") | August 27, 1924 | Airship construction Zeppelin | ||
" Pilgrim " | June 3, 1925 | Goodyear | ||
ZMC-2 | August 19, 1929 | Aircraft Development Corporation | All-metal airship operated from 1929 to 1941 | |
City of Glendale | December 19, 1929 | Thomas Benton Slate | All-metal airship. Shortly before the start of the first trip, the shell burst. | |
ZRS-4 "USS Akron" | September 23, 1931 | Goodyear | The end of the "USS Akron" with 74 deaths in 1935 is the most serious airship disaster to this day. | |
ZRS-5 "USS Macon" | April 21, 1933 | Goodyear | ||
AEREON III | 1966 | Aereon Corporation | Small hybrid airship; damaged and scrapped during tests on the ground | |
MA-1 Ardath | circa 1977 | |||
White Dwarf | circa 1984 | |||
Spirit of Akron | 1987 | Goodyear / Loral | Impact airship | |
Voliris 900 (F-WAAN) | June 26, 2003 | Voliris | ||
Sanswire Stratellite | 2005 | Sanswire Networks | unmanned high-altitude airship, prototype | |
HAV 301 | August 7, 2012 | Northrop Grumman |
See also
- Germany
- List of British Rigid Airships
- List of United States Military Airships
- List of accidents involving airships
Web links
Commons : Airships - collection of pictures, videos and audio files