On this day in aviation history, February 12, 1935, the United States Navy’s scouting airship and “flying aircraft carrier” USS Macon (ZRS-5) was lost in a storm of the California coast.
Al Margolis, director of operations at Moffett Field Historical Society and Museum, speaks about the USS Macon at the museum in Mountain View on April 13, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.