First flight covers and other postal history of the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II. Graf Zeppelin II conducted spying missions and propaganda flights, but never carried paying passengers since the Germans were unable to obtain helium, and inflated the ship with hydrogen.
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I have a cover franked from Frankfurt main on 22-4-38 to Salt Lake city ,Ut airplane from NY,with 75 ph zep stamp and added 25 pg stamp for postage with Schiff from Germany to Northamer. Since Hindenburg crashed in 5-6-37 ,in 4 of 38 I assume the only airship flying… Read more »