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Photo # NH 71617: F9C-2 aircraft from USS Macon flying in formation, circa 1933-35

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

USS Macon (ZRS-5), Airship 1933-1935 --
Views of Her Heavier-Than-Air Group (part II)


This page features additional views related to USS Macon's embarked airplanes and their personnel.

For additional images on this subject, see:

  • USS Macon (ZRS-5) -- Views of Her Heavier-Than-Air Group.


    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 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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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

     
    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.

     
    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

     
    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

     

    For additional images on this subject, see:

  • USS Macon (ZRS-5) -- Views of Her Heavier-Than-Air Group.


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


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