Airship Collection

Defenders of the Empire - British Army, Navy and Airforce with the King at the fore. Date: 1924

Airship R101 G-FaW moored outside the hangars
Airship R101, G-FaW, moored outside the hangars at Cardington while onlookers view from the road and the top deck of a bus

Airship Guarantee Co. R-100
R-100 Airship Flying Close to the Docking Tower at Cardington, Bedfordshire Date: 1930

Poster, Public Warning, identifying aircraft, WW1
British information poster, Public Warning, identifying German and British aircraft, First World War. 1914-1918

Airship R101 at Cardington

R101 airship on mooring mast
The R101 airship attached to a mooring mast, Cardington RAF Base. Date: circa 1930

Airship R38 built for the US Navy at Cardington and renamed ZR2. Completed in 1921. It crashed over the Humber in August 1921 while on a test flight with a mixed British and American crew. Date: 1921

Airship R32 Parked

Greetings from Akron, Ohio, USA
Greetings postcard from Akron, Ohio, USA, rubber manufacturing center of the world, showing the Goodyear Memorial and a rubber tyre shape containing three scenes (Firestone, Goodrich and Goodyear)

Graf Zeppelin airship in flight
The German Graf Zeppelin airship in flight, viewed from directly below

Santos-Dumont airship No6 leaving the Aero Club of Saint?
Santos-Dumont airship No6 leaving the Aero Club of Saint-Cloud

WW1 - Zeppelin over the UK illuminated by searchlights
" Zepp!" WW1 - Zeppelin over the UK illuminated by searchlights Date: circa 1917

Airship R9

Airship R9 leaving the shed

Airship R101 G-FaW moored alongside the hangars
Airship R101, G-FaW, moored alongside the hangars at Cardington

The forward car of Airship R9

Airship R9

Zeppelin LZ-9 Schwaben Airship Flying in 1911 Date: 1911

R80 Airship Date: 1919

R31 Airship Parked

Public warning, German and British aircraft, WW1
Public warning and information sheet, German and British aircraft during the First World War. 1914-1918

WW1 - The King Stephen fishing boat and Zeppelin L19, 1916
WW1 - The zeppelin L19 (also known as the LZ 54), was a World War I airship of the of the Imperial German Navy. After its first bomb raid in the UK, the L19 crashed in the North Sea

The Fall of the German airship L-21 by Fortunino Matania, WW1
The destruction of the German Zeppelin L-21 over Cuffley, Hertfordshire after being shot down by Lieut. William Leefe Robinson on the night of 2nd/3rd September 1916

The R34 airship being walked out by the workers of the Beardmore factory at Inchinnan

Graf, German zeppelin over London 1931
A good will visit, German zeppelin Graf flying over London, a transatlantic passenger carrier operating between 1928 to 1937, with people paying to take a flight over England. Date: August 1931

Launch of the Vickers Airship R80 at Barrow, Walney Isla?
Launch of the Vickers Airship R80 at Barrow, Walney Island, UK with a Man Standing on Top of the Roof

Captain Beedle and His Airship at Cardiff, Wales, UK

Army airship Beta in shed at OTC camp, Farnborough
Army airship Beta in a shed at an Officers Training Corps camp in Farnborough, July 1910. Date: 1910

AIRSHIP / R101 CRASH / 1930
The skeleton of the R.101 sits in a field near Beauvais, France, after the crash during its first and last flight. Date: 5 October 1930

Threat of Zeppelin gas-bag or terror - which? 1915
Cartoon showing Kaisers head on the front of a Zeppelin airship, during World War One. German Zeppelins first successful raid was on the night of 1920 January 1915, in which two Zeppelins

Aerial view of Frankfurt, Germany, from a Zeppelin airship. Date: circa 1930

Naval Airship No3, Astra Torres, moored on a mast, 12 June 1913

R34 airship in flight

Airship R101 leaving the mooring mast at Cardington on the day of its departure to India. 4 October 1930. Date: 1930

Airship R101 at its mooring mast at Cardington

A flying hotel: passenger quarters in airship R101
A flying " hotel" : the remarkable passenger quarters in Britains new giant airship, R101. The worlds largest airship

The Graf Zeppelin flying over Friedrichshafen, Germany
The Graf Zeppelin flying over Friedrichshafen, a city on the shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee in German) in southern Germany, known for its importance in aviation history

Transport / Flight / Airship
SANTOS-DUMONT successfully flies round the Tour Eiffel, though he fails to complete the circuit in 30 minutes to win the offered prize Date: July 1901

Vickers R 23 British airship, one of four built at Barrow-in-Furness. It required a 17-man crew, first flew in September 1917

Lebaudy airship Republique, 24 June 1908

The Astra-Torres Dirigible Airship made by Hutchinson and shown at the Salon de la Locomotion Aerienne at the Grand Palais, Paris, France in 1911. Date: 1911

A car of Airship R9

Airship R9 returning to landing party at the conclusion of flight. Naval Air Station, Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness. 27 November 1916. Date: 1916

A 1 / 40 scale model of the airship Akron
A 1/40 scale model of the airship Akron in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA, in January 1935. Date: 1935

The forward gondola of the R34. The airship is being eased up, preparatory to flight, when the lines held by the groundcrew will be released from the handling rail. 14 March 1919 (the first flight)

The walking way in the keel of the R34, shown when the airship was still under construction. Some of the aluminium fuel tanks and canvas bags for the water ballast may be seen. 24 November 1918

British postcard, Coming down! WW1
British postcard, Coming down! Depicting a German airship with the face of Kaiser Wilhelm, plunging to earth in flames. 1914-1918

The British Army Airship Beta and Hangar
The British Army Airship " Beta" and hangar. Served in northern France during the First World War. She had a 45-50 Clerget engine, a speed of 35 mph and a crew of three

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