OtherUS Los Angeles ZR 3

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Ring Laying July 1922 - Launched August 1924 - Commissioned 25 November 1924 - Decommissioned 30 June 1932 - Struck from Naval Register 24 October 1939 -
Broken up for scrap in 1941
Built in 1923–1924 by the Zeppelin company in Friedrichshafen, Germany, as war reparation. It was delivered to the United States Navy in October 1924 and after being used mainly for experimental work, particularly in the development of the American parasite fighter program, was decommissioned in 1932.


  1. USS LOS ANGELES ZR-3 Covers Page 1 (1924)
  2. USS LOS ANGELES ZR-3 Covers Page 2 (1925)
  3. USS LOS ANGELES ZR-3 Covers Page 3 (1930-1996)


 

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1924-10-15
German Postmark

Delivery of ZR-3

Cover flown on the delivery flight from the Zeppelin Company works in Friedrichshafen, Germany, to NAS Lakehurst, NJ, of the US Navy Zeppelin airship USS Los Angeles (ZR-3, ex-D-LZ 126), October 12-15, 1924 (with backstamp overlay on image)
Courtesy of The Cooper Collection of Zeppelin Postal History
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1996-07-28
USPS Pictorial
"West Cover Stamp & Cover Fest Station"
Irvine CA

40th National Convention Show Cancel

Postmark features USS Los Angeles ZR-3


 

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1996-07-28
USPS Pictorial
"West Cover Stamp & Cover Fest Station"
Irvine CA

40th National Convention

Cachet of USS California ACR-6 by Paul Nitchman, sponsored by USS Los Angeles Chapter No. 97, USCS


 

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c 1980

Postcard

Modern Postcard showing USS PATOKA AO-9 and USS Los Angeles ZR-3 off Panama in 1931. From the Tom Kean collection.

 


 

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