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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-463185

USS Akron (ZRS-4)


Launches a Consolidated N2Y-1 training plane (Bureau # A8604) during flight tests near Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, 4 May 1932.
Note the airship's trapeze aircraft handling gear suspended from her hangar bay.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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2 July 2002