Graf Zeppelin Circumnavigation Flight

Date: August 8, 1929 • Location: Lakehurst, United States

The German airship Graf Zeppelin departed Lakehurst, New Jersey, on a flight to circumnavigate the world.

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. The ship was named after the German airship pioneer Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a count in the German nobility. It was conceived and operated by Hugo Eckener, the chairman of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.