Famous Airships & Zeppelins
Famous Airships & Zeppelins is a structured history dataset with 14 entries. Its fields include Name, Operator, First Flight. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 14 rows
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Source
- Smithsonian / Wikipedia
- Data updated
- Apr 7, 2026
Included fields: Name, Operator, First Flight, Length (m), Fate, and 1 more.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- First Flight range
- 1,923 to 2,016
- Across 14 preview rows
- Length (m) range
- 75 to 245
- Across 14 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Name, Operator, and First Flight across history entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 14 downloadable records
Name↕ | Operator↕ | First Flight↕ | Length (m)↕ | Fate↕ | Claim to Fame↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LZ 129 Hindenburg | DZR (Germany) | 1,936 | 245 | Destroyed by fire, Lakehurst NJ, 1937 | Largest aircraft ever built; Hindenburg disaster ended airship era |
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin | DZR (Germany) | 1,928 | 236 | Scrapped 1940 | Circumnavigated the globe in 1929 in 21 days |
USS Akron (ZRS-4) | US Navy | 1,931 | 239 | Crashed into Atlantic 1933 | Flying aircraft carrier; could launch and recover biplanes mid-flight |
USS Macon (ZRS-5) | US Navy | 1,933 | 239 | Crashed off California 1935 | Sister ship of Akron; carried Sparrowhawk parasite fighters |
R101 | British Air Ministry | 1,929 | 237 | Crashed in France, 1930 | Disaster killed 48 and ended British airship program |
R100 | Vickers (UK) | 1,929 | 219 | Scrapped 1931 | Designed by Barnes Wallis; flew Britain to Canada and back |
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) | US Navy | 1,924 | 200 | Decommissioned 1939 | Most successful US Navy rigid airship; built in Germany as war reparations |
LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II | DZR (Germany) | 1,938 | 245 | Scrapped 1940 | Last German rigid airship ever built; used for radar espionage |
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) | US Navy | 1,923 | 207 | Broke apart in storm, Ohio 1925 | First US-built rigid airship; first to use helium |
Norge | Italy / Norway | 1,923 | 106 | Dismantled 1926 | First aircraft to indisputably fly over the North Pole (1926) |
Italia | Italy | 1,928 | 106 | Crashed on Arctic ice, 1928 | Umberto Nobile's Arctic expedition airship; survivors rescued by ice breakers |
Goodyear Blimp (Wingfoot One) | Goodyear | 2,014 | 75 | In service | Modern semi-rigid Zeppelin NT used for sports broadcasting |
ZPG-3W | US Navy | 1,958 | 121 | Retired 1962 | Largest non-rigid airship (blimp) ever built |
Airlander 10 | Hybrid Air Vehicles (UK) | 2,016 | 92 | Prototype retired 2017 | World's largest aircraft when built; nicknamed 'The Flying Bum' |
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