California IN BRIEF : MONTEREY : Navy to Explore Airship Wreckage
The Navy plans to send a research submarine to explore the wreckage of an airship that disappeared 56 years ago off the Central California coast with four spy planes aboard. The Navy is trying to find a way to salvage one of the four vintage Sparrowhawk biplanes that went down with the airship Macon on Feb. 12, 1935. Navy officials said they hope to retrieve one of the planes this summer so it can be placed in the Smithsonian Institution. The whereabouts of the wreckage remained a mystery until last June, when the Navy found the airship’s frame and cargo of aircraft about two miles west of Point Sur at a depth of 1,500 feet.
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