The wreck of the USS Shenandoah is ingrained in the identity of Noble County, where residents still preserve remnants of the ...

On Sept. 3, 1925, the airship Shenandoah ZR-1 — translated to “daughter of the stars” — crashed in three sections over Noble County, Ohio. Designated by the U.S. Navy as an aircraft for use in long ...

It was the biggest man-made object to ever fill the skies of Tacoma, and even Babe Ruth couldn’t compete with it. On Oct. 18, 1924, a 680-foot long silver airship appeared in the skies of the South ...

We can finally put to rest an urban legend about the time a Zeppelin visited Tulsa, 90 years to the day after the airship came to town. The legend says the top of the 320 South Boston Building was ...

AKRON, Ohio -- Films documenting the history of the USS Akron, a helium-filled U.S. Navy rigid airship that crashed in 1933, killing 76, will be preserved by the University of Akron. The university's ...

Experience with the Shenandoah’s permanent mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J., has convinced the U. S. Navy of the mast’s immense value in anchoring rigid airships. Therefore, another mast is to be ...