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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › USS_Macon_(ZRS-5)USS Macon (ZRS-5) - Wikipedia

    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. In service for less than two years, the Macon was damaged in a storm and lost off ...

    • 21 April 1933
    • 31 October 1929 (Commenced), 8 August 1931 (Launched)
    • 23 June 1933 (Commissioned)

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    • Wreck of Airship USS Macon Added to National Register of Historic Places
    • USS Macon Wreck Site Added to National Register of Historic Places ...
    • Ocean expedition explores submerged wreck of the historic naval airship ...
    • Wreck of Airship USS Macon Added to National Register of Historic Places

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  3. sanctuaries.noaa.gov › shipwrecks › maconUSS Macon - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    USS Macon Mapping and Survey Expedition 2015. Eighty years ago, the U.S. Navy's last great airship crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared. The USS Macon 's location was lost until researchers discovered its remains 1,500 feet below the surface of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 1990.

  4. news.usni.org › 2015/08/19 › exploring-the-wreck-ofExploring the Wreck of USS Macon, The Navy’s Last Flying ...

    Aug 19, 2015 · The sinking of USS Macon (ZRS-5), a lighter-than-air rigid airship, resulted in few deaths but its loss ended the Navy’s quest to use airships as long-range scouts for the fleet.

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  6. www.usni.org › 1992 › marchThe Macon: Last Queen of the Skies | Naval History Magazine ...

    Her eight Maybach engines, which drove three-bladed metal propellers, gave her a cruising speed of 55 knots and a range of about 6,000 miles. Her maximum speed was 75. An airship, she was the USS Macon (ZRS-5). The Navy had other rigid airships—the kind with an internal frame—before her. All had been called, as was the Macon, “Queen of ...

  7. www.sciencedaily.com › releases › 2006Engineers Shed Light On Crash Of The USS Macon, Last Of The ...

    Oct 23, 2006 · The 1935 crash of the Navy zeppelin USS Macon off the California coast marked an inglorious end to a unique experiment in aviation. The giant airship was one of only two ''flying aircraft carriers ...

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  9. sanctuaries.noaa.gov › maconUSS Macon | Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

    USS Macon Mapping and Survey Expedition 2015. In February 1935, the was damaged in a storm off Point Sur, Calif. With the airship losing altitude, the captain ordered crew to dump ballast. It rose to a height of 5,000 feet before slowly falling tail-first into the ocean. All but two of the 83 crew members survived.

  10. usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil › Recent › Article81 Years under the Sea: Remembering USS Macon through the ...

    Feb 12, 2016 · USS Macon (ZRS 5), a U.S. Navy Akron-class rigid airship, sank on February 12, 1935 off the coast of California in what is now the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. USS Macon's wreck site contains some of the oldest known aviation material submerged in

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