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    Airframe Family: Zeppelin Airships
    Latest Model:Type R
    Last Military Serial:LZ113 RAF
    Construction Number:LZ83
    Compressed ID:Zeppelin Type R sn LZ113 RAF cn LZ8...
    Latest Owner or Location:Musee Air and Space, San Jose, San Jose, Ile-de-France

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Type R.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n LZ113.

    To Musee Air and Space, San Jose, San Jose, Ile-De-France.
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    22 February 1915

    First flight.

    14 August 1915

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Marineflieger.

    To Musee Air and Space, San Jose, San Jose, Ile-De-France.
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    Served over the Baltic Sea, flew 15 bombing missions.

    8 October 1920

    Handed over to French authorities in the framework of war reparations at the end of the 1st world war.

    Used for static wind tests and structural tests, never flying again.

    4 August 2011


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: Flight deck in aft gondola (it had four) of this Zeppelin. Machine gun in foreground. Two Maybach engines behind the gun. Must have been a racket in there.

    4 August 2011


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: Signal station.

    4 August 2011


    Photographer: Han de Ridder
    Notes: Close-up of signal apparatus.
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