What You Need to Know: The Akron-class airships, Akron and Macon, represented the pinnacle of rigid airship design and were the U.S. Navy's only flying aircraft carriers.Built by Goodyear-Zeppelin ...

The Akron was lost during a storm off the coast of New Jersey in April 1933, and the Macon was lost in a storm off the coast of California in February 1935. The Navy did not build additional airships ...

Documents the grand opening of the massive hangar built to house the U.S. Navy's airship *Macon*. The film captures large crowds, military personnel, and the ceremonial unveiling of the structure ...

A sudden wind shear hit the USS Macon. The rigid airship was returning from an exercise off the coast of California, carrying a fleet of F9C-2 Sparrowhawk fighters on trapezes inside its belly.

The airfield’s extensive history — starting in the 1930s as a base for the Navy airship USS Macon, to eventually its handover to NASA Ames in the 1990s — is on display at the Moffett Field ...