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1929 Florida State Archives

1929 - the U. S. Navy's 655 foot USS LOS ANGELES ZR-3 flying over Miami

Miami, Florida

The LOS ANGELES was a rigid airship built in 1924 by the German Zeppelin factory. She was converted to helium from hydrogen to improve safety and commissioned by the Navy on November 25, 1924 at Anacostia, DC.

The LOS ANGELES logged 4,398 flight hours and 172,400 nautical miles during her service with the Navy. She was decommissioned in 1932 for financial reasons but re-commissioned after her sister ship the AKRON crashed in April 1933. She was dismantled in 1939. Her other sister ships were the MACON and the SHENANDOAH.


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Mark Lincoln 25-Apr-2015 00:00
Los Angeles was not a "sister ship" of the Macon. and Shenandoah. The Shenandoah (ZR-1) was a re-engineered WW 1 Zeppelin built by the USN at Lakehurst, NJ. Los Angeles (ZR-3) was a post war Zeppelin built in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The Macon (ZRS-4) was a sister ship of the Akron (ZRS-5), both of which were built by Goodyear in Akron, Ohio. The Los Angeles was the only USN rigid airship which did not crash.