Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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1931/00/00 | Harold Gustav Dick | Work | Harold Dick is transferred to the Goodyear Zeppelin Corp, a subsidiary of Goodyear Tire and Rubber, where he works in project design during construction of the USS Macon. | Goodyear Airdock | Akron, OH | Fate of the USS Macon | |
1933/04/11 | Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation | Builder | USS MACON is christened by Jeanette Whitton Moffett, wife of Admiral William Moffett. Built by Goodyear Aerospace at the Goodyear Airdock in Akron, Ohio | Goodyear Airdock | Akron, OH | Fate of the USS Macon | |
1933/06/24 | USS Macon leaves Goodyear Airdock for Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey for training | Hangar No 1, Lakehurst Naval Air Station | Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst | Fate of the USS Macon | |||
1933/10/12 | USS Macon leaves the East Coast for NAS Moffett Field | Fate of the USS Macon | |||||
1933/10/15 | USS Macon (ZRS-5) arrives at the Naval Air Station at Moffett Field, in Sunnyvale, California | US Naval Air Station Sunnyvale, California, Historic District | Moffett Field | Fate of the USS Macon | |||
1934/04/00 | USS Macon's tail fins are damaged in turbulence near Van Horn, Texas. | Fate of the USS Macon | |||||
1934/07/19 | Franklin D Roosevelt | Visitor | USS Macon's scout planes locate the USS Houston in the mid Pacific and deliver President Roosevelt bundles of the previous day's San Francisco newspapers. | FDR Vacations in Hawaii | |||
1934/07/19 | Franklin D Roosevelt | Visitor | USS Macon's scout planes locate the USS Houston in the mid Pacific and deliver President Roosevelt bundles of the previous day's San Francisco newspapers. | Fate of the USS Macon | |||
1935/02/12 | United States Navy | Owner | USS MACON crashes into the Pacific Ocean off Big Sur following a structural failure. | Big Sur | California | Fate of the USS Macon |
Particulars for USS MACON (airship remains): | |||
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Area of Significance | Aviation, Air-related | ||
Airship Type | Dirigible | ||
Area of Significance | Engineering | ||
Owner | Federal | ||
Area of Significance | Historic and non-aboriginal | ||
Event Category | Historic Event | ||
Criteria | Information Potential | ||
Area of Significance | Military | ||
Level of Significance | National | ||
Sight Category | Site | ||
Owner | State | ||
Sight Category | Vehicle |
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