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Goodyear has maintained a fleet of blimps for many decades. They are replacing the blimp fleet with Zeppelins. The last Goodyear blimp will be retired in 2016.
The Goodyear blimp Spirit of Innovation landed at Goodyear, Arizona on Sunday, September 13, 2015. It is the last Goodyear blimp. The others have been replaced with Zeppelins. On Tuesday it is scheduled to depart for its new home base in Carson, California. It is slated to be replaced by a Zeppelin next year.
Goodyear Blimp Spirit Of Innovation at Goodyear, Arizona on September 13, 2015. You can purchase prints of this photo as large as 16 inches by 24 inches.
Goodyear Blimp Spirit Of Innovation at Goodyear, Arizona on September 13, 2015. You can purchase prints of this photo as large as 16 inches by 24 inches.
Goodyear blimp Columbia, N10A at
Goleta on August 26, 1988.
DC-3, N25CE Puff taxies past Goodyear Blimp, N4A Columbia at the Santa Barbara Airport in October 1985. This picture will appear in the February 2012 edition of Klassiker der Luftfahrt.
DC-3, N25CE Puff taxies past Goodyear Blimp, N4A Columbia at the Santa Barbara Airport in October 1985.
While Columbia was at Tucson International Airport in April 1971, a sudden shift in the wind caused the blimp to do a nose stand at its mooring.
The Goodyear blimp Columbia N3A visited the town of Goodyear, west of Phoenix, Arizona in March 1971.
Faded black and white print version
Faded black and white print version
Faded black and white print version
The Goodyear blimp Columbia N3A visited the town of Goodyear, west of Phoenix, Arizona in January 1970.
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(R/C) Blimps.
The Naval Airship
Association serves to gather, perpetuate and disseminate the
lighter-than-air expertise and knowledge that has been
accumulated during the U.S. Navy's long involvement with the
development and employment of lighter-than-air principles in
military aviation.
Zepellins eat blimps for breakfast on John
Dziadecki's Airship Page.
Books about
airships available from 
Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine : The
Great Zeppelin and the Dawn of Air Travel by Douglas Botting
When Giants Roamed the Sky: Karl
Arnstein and the Rise of Airships from Zeppelin to Goodyear by Dale Topping
Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships
: Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg by Harold G. Dick
The Great Dirigibles : Their Triumphs
and Disasters by
John Toland
Inside the Hindenburg by Mireille Majoor
The Hindenburg by Patrick O'Brien
Sky Ships : A History of the Airship in the United States Navy by William A. Althoff
The Zeppelin in Combat : A History of the German Naval Airship Division 1912-1918 by Douglas H. Robinson.
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Go to home page of the Goleta Air and Space Museum.
Edited February 8, 1997