From: "W. D. Allen Sr."
com

The Navy also had two dirigibles in the 1930s that could launch and recover
fighter planes while in flight.

WDA


The Akron and Macon. The airplane was the F9C Sparrowhawk.

It is interesting to note that the only big ridgid airship the U.S. had that
lived long enough to retire, Los Angeles, was made by the Germans. It
specifically built for the U.S. by the Germans as war raparations for WW1.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired