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Macon was christened on 11 March 1933, by Jeanette Whitton Moffett, wife of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, Chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. [10] The airship was named after the city of Macon, Georgia, which was the largest city in the Congressional district of Carl Vinson, then the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Naval Affairs.
The Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk is a light 1930s biplane fighter aircraft that was carried by the United States Navy airships USS Akron and Macon. It is an example of a parasite fighter , a small airplane designed to be deployed from a larger aircraft such as an airship or bomber.
The site also contains the remains of four of the airship's squadron of small Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk scout aircraft which the USS Macon carried in an internal hangar bay. The wreck site remains secret, and is within a marine sanctuary, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, and is not accessible to divers due to depth (1,500 ft; 460 m).
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The remains of the USS Macon Airship and its associated F9C Sparrowhawks are located at around 1500 feet in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has run survey expeditions to the site, creating photomosaics to track deterioration. The wreck site is listed on the National Register.
Launched in 1933, Macon was in service for less than two years: in 1935 it was damaged in a storm and lost off California's Big Sur coast. Its wreckage is listed as "USS Macon Airship Remains" on the National Register of Historic Places. Photo: Naval Historical Center
USS Macon has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship or airship, and may refer to: USS Macon (ZRS-5), an airship commissioned in 1933 and destroyed in a crash in 1935; USS Macon (PF-96), a planned patrol frigate cancelled in 1943; USS Macon (CA-132), a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser commissioned in 1945 and struck in 1969
Photo-enhanced version of the USS Macon (ZRS-5) airship flying over New York Harbor, circa Summer 1933. More selected pictures This page was last ...