First flight : 19 June 1910 under command of Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
Type : E
Used by the Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft (DELAG) for passenger flights.
Was the seventh airship built by Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen am Bodensee.
Damaged beyond repair after crashing on the seventh flight during a thunderstorm over the Teutoburg Forest on 28 June 1910. The rain water and an engine failure took the airship out of balance and it crashed into the trees in the Nadelwald at Limberg, near Bad Iburg. There was only 1 lightly wounded.
Length : 148m diameter : 14m gasvolume : 19.300 m3
3 engines giving total power of 375ps (275KW)
Crew : 8
Memorial at the crash-site
Literature :
Piston-engined airliners page 6
Landing 22 June 1910 auf der Golzheimer Heide near Dusseldorf.