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  2. List of current airships in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Spirit of Goodyear, one of the iconic Goodyear Blimps. This is a list of airships with a current unexpired Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) [1] registration.. In 2021, Reader's Digest said that "consensus is that there are about 25 blimps still in existence and only about half of them are still in use for advertising purposes". [2]

  3. Goodyear Blimp - Wikipedia

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    The Goodyear Blimp, Today and Yesterday: A complete guide to Goodyear's advertising blimps; Goodyear upgrades from blimps to Zeppelins; Poll: Should Goodyear Still Call Their New Zeppelin NT Airships 'Blimps'? A blimp is a blimp. These aren't. Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock collection, 1920–1959. Finding guide on the OAC.

  4. Goodyear GZ-20 - Wikipedia

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    The GZ-20 was introduced as part of a US$4 million expansion program by Goodyear in 1968 that included the construction of a new GZ-19 Florida-based airship (Mayflower N1A), replacement of the California-based GZ-19 with a GZ-20 (Columbia N3A), adding a third airship to the fleet (GZ-20 America N10A) and constructing a new airship base at Spring, Texas as home to the new blimp.

  5. A look back at and inside the Goodyear Blimp - AOL

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    In 1917, Goodyear started making airships (the founding father of today’s blimps) for the U.S. Navy. Meanwhile, in 1919 Goodyear was flying an open air cockpit blimp with onlookers gawking down ...

  6. N-class blimp - Wikipedia

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    The airship was 403 ft (122.8 m) long and was almost 120 ft (36.6 m) high, containing some 1,500,000 cubic feet (42,450 cubic meters). [6] The endurance time of the airship could extend for days. This model of the N-class blimp was the largest non-rigid airship ever flown. The ZPG-3W Vigilance was the last of the airships built for the U.S ...

  7. Massive electric aircraft, bigger than Goodyear blimp, has ...

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    The largest airship in the world took its first step toward coming to Akron with a successful first test flight in Silicon Valley. Massive electric aircraft, bigger than Goodyear blimp, has first ...

  8. Loral GZ-22 - Wikipedia

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    The Loral GZ-22 (also known as the Goodyear GZ-22) was a class of non-rigid airship, or blimp first flown in 1989 and operated by Goodyear as its flagship promotional aircraft, with civil registration N4A and christened Spirit of Akron. This was the only airship of this class ever built. [1]

  9. G-class blimp - Wikipedia

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    In 1935, instead of developing a new design airship, the Navy purchased the Goodyear Blimp Defender for use as a trainer and utility airship assigning it the designator G-1. Defender was built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio and was the largest blimp in the company’s fleet of airships that were used for advertising and as ...