This page features additional views related to USS Macon's embarked airplanes and their personnel.
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Photo #: NH 77428 Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighter (Bureau # 9058), piloted by Lieutenant Harold B. "Min" Miller Flying over Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, in 1934. This plane was then assigned to USS Macon (ZRS-5). Courtesy of Harold B. Miller, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 585 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 71617 Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighters (including Bureau #s 9055, at left, and 9057, in lower right) Flying in a "V" formation, circa 1933-1935. These planes are part of the heavier-than-air group of USS Macon (ZRS-5). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 77426 Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighters (including, from left to right: Bureau #s 9058, 9060, and 9061) Flying in formation over Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, in 1934. These planes are part of the heavier-than-air group of USS Macon (ZRS-5). Courtesy of Harold B. Miller, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 128KB; 740 x 580 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 77429 Lieutenant Harold B. "Min" Miller, USN With his Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighter, while visiting his hometown, Newton, Iowa, while en route from Lakehurst, New Jersey, to Moffett Field, California, in October 1933. The man in the plane's cockpit is Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Glowacki. Both men, and the aircraft, were part of the USS Macon (ZRS-5) heavier-than-air group. Macon was also en route to Moffett Field, but her "Sparrowhawks" were making the trip independently. Courtesy of Harold B. Miller, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 495 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-432806 Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighter (Bureau # 9056) Parked at an airfield, circa 1933-1935. This plane is part of the USS Macon (ZRS-5) heavier-than-air group, whose insignia is painted below the cockpit. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 565 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 75575 Waco XJW-1 utility airplane (Bureau # 9521) Parked at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, circa 1934-1935. This plane is assigned to USS Macon (ZRS-5). Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 430 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 80772 Waco XJW-1 utility airplane (Bureau # 9522) Parked at an airfield, circa 1934-1935. This airplane is assigned to USS Macon (ZRS-5). Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book "The Airships Akron & Macon", 1974. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 50KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Page made 2 October 2002