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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| Giffard I | September 24, 1852 | Henri Giffard | Steam powered propeller |
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| La France | 1884 | Arthur Constantin Krebs | Electric drive |
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| Wolfert | August 10, 1888 | Friedrich Hermann Wölfert | Driven by a petrol engine | |
| Germany | circa 1897 | Friedrich Hermann Wölfert | Crashed on June 12, 1897 |
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| Airship by David Schwarz | November 3, 1897 | David Black | All-metal shell, badly damaged on first flight |
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| Santos-Dumont No. 1 | September 20, 1898 | Alberto Santos Dumont |
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| Santos-Dumont No. 3 | 1899 | Alberto Santos Dumont |
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| Santos-Dumont No. 6th | 1901 | Alberto Santos Dumont |
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| Pax | May 12, 1902 | Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão | Crashed on first flight |
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| Bradsky | October 13, 1902 | Otokar from Bradsky-Laboun | Crashed on first flight |
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| Lebaudy | October 25, 1902 | Lebaudy Frères |
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| Santos-Dumont No. 9 "La Baladeuse" | June 26, 1903 | Alberto Santos Dumont |
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| Santos Dumont No. 10 | 1903 | Alberto Santos Dumont |
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| LZ 2 | circa 1905 | Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
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| Patrie | November 16, 1906 | Lebaudy Frères |
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| Liberté | June 24, 1908 | Lebaudy Frères |
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| Gross-Base after MI | June 30, 1908 | Groß-Basenach |
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| Clément-Bayard No. 1 | October 28, 1908 | Astra Clément-Bayard | Later in Russian service as Berkut |
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| LZ 5 | May 26, 1909 | Airship construction Zeppelin | Civil use |
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| Erbslöh | August 20, 1909 | Oskar Erbslöh | Crash on July 13, 1910 |
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| PL 1 | September 21, 1909 | August of Parseval | ||
| PL 3 | September 21, 1909 | Aircraft company | Driven as an "experimental airship" as early as 1906 |
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| MI Parseval ( PL 4 ) | November 26, 1909 | Austrian motor aircraft company | First airship of the Austro-Hungarian aviation troops | |
| Zodiac III | circa 1909 |
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| Astra I , later Ville de Pau and Ville de Lucerne | circa 1909 | Astra Société de Construction Aéronautique |
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| F.1 "Leonardo da Vinci" | 1910 | Enrico Forlanini | ||
| Clément-Bayard No. 2 | April 10, 1910 | Astra Clément-Bayard |
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| LZ 7 ( "Germany" ) | June 19, 1910 | Airship construction Zeppelin | Crashed on June 28, 1910 |
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| Morning Post | September 14, 1910 | Lebaudy Frères |
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| Willow C | October 29, 1910 | Ernest Willows |
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| Clément-Bayard No. 4th | circa 1910 | Astra Clément-Bayard |
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| Siemens-Schuckert I. | January 23, 1911 | Siemens-Schuckertwerke |
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| LZ 14 | October 7, 1912 | Airship construction Zeppelin | First German naval airship |
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| Pike | April 13, 1913 | Joseph Spiess | The only rigid airship built in France |
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| SL II | February 28, 1914 | Schütte-Lanz |
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| PL 25 | February 25, 1915 | Aircraft company | Decommissioned on March 30, 1916 |
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| LZ 104 ( L 59 ) | October 30, 1917 | Airship construction Zeppelin | Used as a German military airship; April 7, 1918, the Strait of Otranto crashed |
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| LZ 121 "Nordstern" , later renamed " Méditerranée ". | June 8, 1921 | Airship construction Zeppelin | Transferred to France as a reparation payment |
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| R38 (in the USA ZR-2 ) | June 23, 1921 | Short Brothers |
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| ZR-1 ( "USS Shenandoah" ) | September 4, 1923 | Naval Aircraft Factory |
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| LZ 126 , (in the USA ZR-3 or "USS Los Angeles") | August 27, 1924 | Airship construction Zeppelin |
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| " Pilgrim " | June 3, 1925 | Goodyear | ||
| ZMC-2 | August 19, 1929 | Aircraft Development Corporation | All-metal airship operated from 1929 to 1941 |
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| 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. |
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| ZRS-5 "USS Macon" | April 21, 1933 | Goodyear |
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| 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 |
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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
