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Swiss flights
Zeppelin airships flew more than 80 times to Switzerland during the period from 1908 to 1936 and a few times to Lichtenstein. Most of these flights were short trips of the airship LZ 127 (Graf Zeppelin) without a landing on Swiss ground. But there were a few exceptions: the landing to Basel, Bern, Zurich (Dübendorf) and Geneva.
As it was common to write postcards during the flight, it is fair to assume that so called "board post" exists from most of the flights. However, real mail drops to a Swiss city occurred only during about one third of the flights. The following table lists the flights to Switzerland and Lichtenstein, according to the 22nd edition of the Zeppelin Post Catalogue (Sieger-Verlag, 2001).
| Zeppelin | Name of flight |
Date |
Mail drop (? = only board post) * |
| Flight with landing | |||
| LZ127 (Graf Zeppelin) | Flight to Zürich-Dübendorf | 02.11.1929 | Dübendorf, Winterthur, Frauenfeld (=St. Gallen) |
| Flight to Geneva | 14.09.1930 | Geneva, Zurich | |
| Flight to Bern and Basel | 12.10.1930 | Bern, Basel, Zurich | |
| Flight with no landing | |||
| LZ4 (Z II) | 12-hours Switzerland flight | 01.07.1908 | Winterthur, Bürglen, Wettingen, Lucerne, Zug, Zürich, Frauenfeld |
| Long distance flight | 04.08.1908 | Schaffhausen, Basel | |
| LZ6 (Z III) | Short flight over Bodensee | 04.09.1909 | Arbon |
| Flight to Romanshorn | 25.09.1909 | ? | |
| Flight to Konstanz, Uttwil, Romanshorn | 26.09.1909 | ? | |
| Bodensee round trip, u.a. Romanshorn | 30.09.1909 | ? | |
| LZ8 (Deutschland) | 31.03.1911 | St. Gallen | |
| LZ10 (Schwaben) | 1st passenger trip, Romanshorn, Rorschach | 16.07.1911 | ? |
| Switzerland flight | 20.07.1911 | Brunnen, Zurich | |
| LZ 11 (Viktoria Luise) | 05.03.1912 | Sisselen | |
| LZ126 (ZR III) | Switzerland flight | 11.09.1924 | Basel, Lucerne, Zurich |
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Transfer flight to Lakehurst, North America | 12.10.1924 | Möhlin, Allschwil |
| LZ127 (Graf Zeppelin) | Flight to South Germany | 20.09.1928 | Basel |
| 1st America flight | 11.10.1928 | Rheinfelden, Basel | |
| Trial flight, Bodensee area | 18.02.1929 | St. Gallen, Rorschach | |
| Garage flight | 22.02.1929 | Romanshorn | |
| America flight, interrupted in Cuers | 16.05.1929 | Basel | |
| Flight into the occupied territory | 28.07.1929 | Eichberg (St. Gallen) | |
| America flight, outward journey | 01.08.1929 | Basel | |
| America flight, return journey | 10.08.1929 | Basel, Schaffhausen-Neuhausen | |
| World round trip, return journey USA-Germany | 04.09.1929 | Porrentruy (Pruntrut), Basel | |
| 1st Switzerland flight 1929 | 26.09.1929 | Basel, Solothurn, Biel, Neuchatel, Geneva, Lausanne, Fribourg, Bern, Luzcern, Zurich, Gossau, St. Gallen | |
| 2nd Switzerland flight 1929 | 27.09.1929 | Interlaken, Genf, Einsiedeln | |
| 3rd Switzerland flight 1929 | 27.09.1929 | Fribourg, Lausanne, Eigergletscher, Jungfraujoch, Zurich, St. Gallen, Chur | |
| 4th Switzerland flight 1929 | 02.10.1929 | Basel, Biel, Bern, Lucerne, Zurich, Zürich-Fluntern, Romanshorn-Winterthur | |
| 5th Switzerland flight 1929 | 06.10.1929 | Zurich-Flugplatz, Baden, Bern | |
| Spain flight | 23.10.1929 | Basel | |
| 50th flight of LZ127. Flight to Bodensee area | 15.11.1929 | Romanshorn, St. Gallen | |
| Switzerland flight | 12.04.1930 | Basel | |
| Switzerland flight | 02.05.1930 | Lausanne | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 13.05.1930 | ? | |
| Switzerland flight | 17.06.1930 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 27.06.1930 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 01.07.1930 | ? | |
| Switzerland flight | 04.07.1930 | St. Gallen | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 26.07.1930 | ? | |
| Short trip to East Switzerland | 01.08.1930 | ? | |
| Short trip to West Switzerland | 01.08.1930 | ? | |
| Flight to Switzerland and flight to Vaduz | 19.08.1930 | Vaduz | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 27.08.1930 | ? | |
| Short trip to East Switzerland | 29.08.1930 | ? | |
| Short trip to West Switzerland | 29.08.1930 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 19.09.1930 | ? | |
| Switzerland flight of Württemberg car club | 19.09.1930 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 02.10.1930 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 03.10.1930 | ? | |
| Four short trip to Switzerland | 14.-24.10.1930 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 02.11.1930 | ? | |
| Werkstättenfahrt in die Schweiz | 02.05.1931 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 02.06.1931 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 05.06.1931 | ? | |
| Flight Vaduz to Lausanne | 10.06.1931 | Lausanne, Frick | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 19.06.1931 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 23.06.1931 | ? | |
| Short trips to Switzerland | 07.07.1931 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 24.08.1931 | ? | |
| Flight to Lausanne | 31.08.1931 | Lausanne | |
| Zurich flight | 11.09.1931 | Zurich | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 03.11.1931 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 04.06.1932 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 07.06.1932 | ? | |
| Switzerland flight - 250th flight | 28.06.1932 | Zurich | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 30.06.1932 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 05.07.1932 | ? | |
| ADAC Switzerland flight, into Allgäu and Bayern | 06.07.1932 | ? | |
| 9 Short trips to Switzerland | 02.-23.08.1932 | ? | |
| Short trips to Switzerland | 26.05.1933 | ? | |
| Short trips to Switzerland | 20.06.1933 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 22.06.1933 | ? | |
| Switzerland flight | 18.07.1933 | Bern | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 20.07.1933 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 24.05.1934 | ? | |
| Switzerland flight | 10.07.1934 | Zurich | |
| 4 Short trips to Switzerland | 10.-12.07.1934 | ? | |
| Short trip to Switzerland | 27.09.1934 | ? | |
| LZ129 (Hindenburg) | Test flight to Switzerland | 05.03.1936 | no postal service |
| Krupp round trip to Switzerland | 16.06.1936 | ? | |
| * If you have any oiginal reports, photographies or postal items, zeppelinpost.ch is more than happy to collect them. | |||