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Photo # NH 85748: USS Macon leaving the airship hangar at Moffett Field, California, 26 October 1933

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-- U.S. NAVY AIRCRAFT -- 1922-1962 DESIGNATION SYSTEM --

USS Macon (ZRS-5), Airship 1933-1935 --
Landing, Takeoff and Ground Views


This page features all the views we have of USS Macon (ZRS-5) during the landing and takeoff process and while on the ground.

For more views of USS Macon, see:

  • USS Macon (ZRS-5), Airship 1933-1935.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 669

    USS Macon (ZRS-5)


    Arriving at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, after her delivery flight from Akron, Ohio, 24 June 1933.
    Note the light ground haze over the field.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85747

    USS Macon (ZRS-5)


    Arriving at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, California, after her flight across the United States from Lakehurst, New Jersey, 15 October 1933.
    Note the mooring cable running from Macon's nose to the ground.

    Photograph from the NAS Moffett Field History File.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85745

    USS Macon (ZRS-5)


    Moored at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, California, after her arrival from Lakehurst, New Jersey, 15 October 1933.

    Photograph from the NAS Moffett Field History File.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85743

    USS Macon (ZRS-5)


    Docked in the new airship hangar at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, California, on 15 October 1933. She had just arrived after a flight across the United States from Lakehurst, New Jersey.
    A small blimp is also in the hangar.

    Photograph from the NAS Moffett Field History File.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85746

    USS Macon (ZRS-5)


    Docked in the new airship hangar at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, California, 15 October 1933, following her flight across the United States from Lakehurst, New Jersey.
    A small blimp is also in the hangar.

    Photograph from the NAS Moffett Field History File.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85748

    USS Macon (ZRS-5)


    Leaving the airship hangar at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, California, on 26 October 1933, in preparation for her first flight since arriving from the East Coast eleven days earlier.

    Photograph from the NAS Moffett Field History File.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 77425

    USS Macon (ZRS-5)


    Moored at Camp Kearney, San Diego, California, on 8 February 1934.
    Courtesy of Harold B. Miller, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82710

    USS Macon (ZRS-5)


    Near the mooring mast at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, California, circa 1933-1934.
    This is a halftone reproduction.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 345 pixels

     

    For more views of USS Macon, see:

  • USS Macon (ZRS-5), Airship 1933-1935.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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