Talk:List of current airships in the United States
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This page has been marked as having questionable notability. Extraction and analysis of this data from the FAA database took a significant effort. Answering the question of which airships are still active in the United States seems to be both interesting and relevant, especially given the list is so short and getting shorter all the time. Perhaps, I'm missing the issue with this concern.
- I like this topic, and think it is worthy and significant, as these airships are flying around the United States and need to be identified by the general public and by various authorities involved in airspace safety. I think the article should be expanded to include flight information (such as what lights are required on such airships). It is certainly notable to anyone seeking to identify an aircraft, as few objects in the sky simply float or hover, making no noise, which differs substantially from typical aircraft such as planes which generally must keep moving along, helicopters, and noisy drones. Blimps, zeppelins, and air balloons have contributed significantly to early-historical air travel and, amazingly, to the winning of battles prior to the development of airplanes, as they gave a side the advantage of seeing the positions of enemy troops. I believe they were even used during the U.S. Civil War. Misty MH (talk) 01:17, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah, there are only 25 blimps still in existence, and even fewer zeppelins, *worldwide*. This is a fairly obviously notable list, though it arguably feels like it shouldn't be restricted to just the US, since there're no similar lists for other countries. What would it take to remove the notability tag? --DewiMorgan (talk) 20:17, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- From the guidelines: "The common theme in the notability guidelines is that there must be verifiable, objective evidence that the subject has received significant attention from independent sources to support a claim of notability." - OK, I kinda agree with the tag, then, maybe. Airships in general are easily notable. AMERICAN airships... not really? Does anyone particularly care about excluding the few airships outside the US? --DewiMorgan (talk) 20:31, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, there are only 25 blimps still in existence, and even fewer zeppelins, *worldwide*. This is a fairly obviously notable list, though it arguably feels like it shouldn't be restricted to just the US, since there're no similar lists for other countries. What would it take to remove the notability tag? --DewiMorgan (talk) 20:17, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Expansion to worldwide "List of current airships"[edit]
Considering that the consensus appears to be that there are only 20-25 airships left in the world, it should be possible to expand the current list to cover the entire world. In doing so, this list would also become more notable and useful for people interested in airships in general. I would propose to have a single table of all airships, which makes the sorting mechanism useful. Then we could have a section covering the different operators. If there is no opposition, I would go ahead and add the 3 airships in Germany along with references. ApolloLV (talk) 22:01, 1 July 2022 (UTC)