US EditionThe iconic Goodyear Blimp is 100. To celebrate, a flight over Ohio
- Goodyear is flying three of its four blimps—Wingfoot One, Two, and Three—over Akron from June 3 to 5, 2025, to celebrate the blimps' 100th anniversary.
- The flyover honors the Goodyear Blimp's legacy, marked by its first flight in 1925 and its role in marketing and major events, including sports and TV broadcasts.
- Residents can attend free events at Wingfoot Lake State Park and at the downtown venue for the Akron State of the City event, which will include a blimp flyover of Canal Park prior to the Akron RubberDucks baseball game.
- The first 1,000 fans entering Canal Park on June 3 will receive commemorative T-shirts, and doors open for the Lock 3 event at 4 p.m. With registration required.
- Wendy's, founded in Ohio like Goodyear, celebrates the blimp's centennial on June 3 with a free Frosty offer via its app valid through midnight June 4 at participating locations nationwide.
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Goodyear blimp celebrates 100 years
(CBS, KYMA/KECY) - 2025 is a great year for the Goodyear blimp as the tiremaker is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its iconic airships, with commemorative flights this week in Ohio. The jumbo airships became a fixture looming large over major sporting events since flying above the 1955 Rose Bowl. Crows gathered near Akron, Ohio, to watch the blimps take a victory lap above land that once housed Goodyear's original hangar. "Cool blimps! That…
Goodyear Blimp celebrates 100 years
MOGADORE — The iconic Goodyear airships are taking a victory lap over the skies of an Ohio city this week. The Akron-based tire company is celebrating the 100th anniversary of “Pilgrim,” its first blimp to take flight just outside of the city on June 3, 1925. The airships took to the skies on Tuesday, and will again today and Thursday, flying over land that once housed the company’s original hangar. Jim Crone, who manages airship maintenance, ex…
19 vintage Goodyear Blimp photos on its 100th anniversary
On June 3, 1925, Goodyear launched its first civil airship. Over the next century, the blimp could be spotted floating over sporting events as an icon of advertising. Before the branded blimps hit the skies in 1925, Goodyear built approximately 25 airships for the US Navy, starting in 1917. The hangar at the company’s Akron, Ohio-based Wingfoot Lake Airship Base was not yet complete when the Navy placed their order, so production of the first pr…
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