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1924-10-15<br/>German Postmark<br/>
1925-02-18<br/>USPO Machine Cancel<br/>Washington DC<br/><br/>USPO 4-bar Cancel<br/>"Air Mail Service"<br/>New York NY
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Delivery of ZR-3
Flight from Lakehurst to Hamilton, Bermuda
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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)<br/>
Machine cancel on the back dated 21 Feb 1925 Hamilton Bermuda.
Courtesy of The Cooper Collection of Zeppelin Postal History<br/>(Wikipedia - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.)
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Revision as of 01:19, 1 April 2019


Cachets should be listed in chronological order based on earliest known usage. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to add-on cachets as well.

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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1925-02-18
USPO Machine Cancel
Washington DC

USPO 4-bar Cancel
"Air Mail Service"
New York NY

Flight from Lakehurst to Hamilton, Bermuda

Machine cancel on the back dated 21 Feb 1925 Hamilton Bermuda.

 

 

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