Goodyear GZ-20

The Goodyear GZ-20 and GZ-20A were non-rigid airships, or blimps, that Goodyear introduced in 1969 as the signature craft of its advertising fleet, the Goodyear Blimp. They grew out of the earlier GZ-19 class, with a larger envelope that carried the Super-Skytacular night sign and more powerful engines. A GZ-20 was about 192 feet long and carried a pilot and six passengers, powered by two 210 horsepower Continental engines. Introduced in a four million dollar expansion, the class included Columbia, America and, from 1972, Europa, the first Goodyear blimp based outside the United States. The GZ-20s were the mainstay of Goodyear airship operations until 2017, when the last was dismantled and the Zeppelin NT replaced them.