Large airships with a rigid internal frame holding the gas cells, built in the 1920s and 1930s for scouting, transatlantic passenger service and prestige, and ended by a run of accidents. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the craft a rigid airship. It excludes non-rigid blimps and modern helium airships. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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LZ 129 Hindenburg
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LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of its class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume.
USS Macon (ZRS-5), Wikipedia
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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) - Wikipedia
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USS Los Angeles was a rigid airship, designated ZR-3, which was built in 1923-1924 by the Zeppelin company in Friedrichshafen, Germany, as war reparations.
USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), Wikipedia
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USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships.
USS Akron, Wikipedia
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USS Akron (hull number ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S.
Wikipedia: LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin
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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin 127) was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937.
R101 (Wikipedia)
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R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme, a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire.
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