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Zeppelin LZ83 LZ 113
First flight : 22 February 1917
Class : R
15 reconnaissance missions around the Eastern Front and the Baltic Sea; three attacks dropping a total of 6,000 kilograms (13,000 lb) of bombs. In June 1917 the German Army handed it over to the Kriegsmarine. In 1920 ordered to be transferred to France as part of war reparations.
Gondola of LZ 113 at the musee de l’air et de l ‘espace at Le Bourget
Literature :
Warplanes WOI page 66