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USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a "flying aircraft carrier", carrying up to five single-seat Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk parasite biplanes for scouting or two-seat Fleet N2Y-1s for training.
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) - German-built as LZ 126, served 1924-39 (decommissioned 1932, and dismantled 1940) Akron class. USS Akron (ZRS-4) - aircraft carrier served 1931-33, lost 4 April 1933 in a storm, 73 killed; USS Macon (ZRS-5) - aircraft carrier served 1933-35, lost 12 February 1935 due to structural failure, 2 killed
From – To Branch of service Unit Duty Aircraft Insignia 1933, October 15 – 1935, February 12: USN: rigid airship [1]: Coastal surveillance: USS Macon (ZRS-5)
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
ZRS-4 Goodyear–Zeppelin Corporation: 24 June 1926 31 October 1929 8 August 1931 27 October 1931 Crashed off coast of New Jersey, 4 April 1933 Macon: ZRS-5 1 May 1931 11 March 1933 23 June 1933 Crashed off Point Sur, California, 12 February 1935
The hangar was designed and developed to port the USS Macon (ZRS-5). The immense structure, Hangar One, designed to house this dirigible, remains the second largest structures in the United States without internal support. The Goodyear Airdock in Akron, Ohio, where the USS Macon was built, is the largest.
USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy, the lead ship of her class, which operated between September 1931 and April 1933. It was the world's first purpose-built flying aircraft carrier , carrying F9C Sparrowhawk fighter planes , which could be launched and recovered while it was in flight.
April 3, USS Akron was caught in a severe storm and flown into the surface of the sea off the shore of New Jersey. It carried no life boats and few life vests, so 73 of its crew of 76 died from drowning or hypothermia. US Navy Zeppelin USS Macon (ZRS-5) over Moffett Field in 1933. April 21, the USS Macon is launched.