LZ 30 was the 30th airship built by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and the 14th operated by the Imperial German Army. It served under the military designation Z XI from November 1914 to May 1915.
LZ 30 was the 30th airship built by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and the 14th operated by the Imperial German Army. It served under the military designation Z XI from November 1914 to May 1915.
The maiden flight of LZ 30 took place on 15 November 1914. The Army took delivery of the airship under the designation Z XI. [1]
Z XI was stationed in Poznań for wartime operations. From there, it conducted bombing raids on cities including Warsaw, Grodno, and Kaunas. [1]
On 20 May 1915, Z XI was damaged while being moved out of its airship hangar in Poznań and was driven off by adverse winds. During its descent, the airship caught fire and was destroyed. [1]
The gondola is preserved at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels [2] , and is currently on loan to the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen [3] .
