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    Airframe Family: Goodyear ZWG / ZPG
    Latest Model:ZPG-3W
    Last Military Serial:144243 USN
    Construction Number:144243
    Compressed ID:Goodyear ZPG-3W sn 144243 USN cn 14...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a ZPG-3W.

    19 June 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 144243.

    At 403 feet in length and 85 feet in diameter was the largest non-rigid airship ever built.

    5 May 1960

    Last flight.
    From South Weymouth to Lakehurst, NJ.

    To AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Gondola only.
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    1 May 2005


    Photographer: RedRipper 24
    Notes: At the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) - Davis Monthan AFB, Tuscon, AZ

    4 November 2023


    Photographer: Cassidy Cristello
    Notes: Probably one of the most unique things to pass through AMARG is the gondola of a ZPG-3W airship. Still sitting on the desert floor 30 odd years later, BuNo has since been removed.
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