LZ-64 participated in 30 reconnaissance missions and eight attacks on England, dropping 9,215 kg of bombs. She was destroyed by a British Curtis H12 Flying Boat near Terschelling on 14 May 1917 during a reconnaissance mission (see LZ-112).
LZ-66 participated in 51 reconnaissance missions and three attacks on England dropping 5,254 kg of bombs. She was destroyed on 21 August 1917 by an English fighter starting from the cruiser HMS Yarmouth.
LZ-67 participated in four attacks on London (twice), Boulogne, and Bucharest, dropping 5,760 kg of bombs. She also flew several unsuccessful flights in bad weather. She was decommissioned on 5 July 1917.
LZ-68 participated in a single successful attack on London, dropping 1,513 kg of bombs, as well as several flights aborted due to bad weather. She was handed over to the German Navy in November of 1916. In Naval service, she flew 15 reconnaissance missions around the Baltic Sea. She was decommissioned in August of 1917.
LZ-69 participated in 19 reconnaissance missions around the North Sea and four raids on England, dropping 8,510 kg of bombs. She crashed into a wall while being "halled in" on 28 December 1916 and burned down together with LZ-53.
LZ-71 was stationed in Yambol (Bulgaria). She flew seven attacks dropping a total of 11,934 kg of bombs on Bucharest, Ciulniţa, Feteşti, Galaţi, Odessa, Mytilene, Jassy, and Mudros. She was disassembled in September 1917.
LZ-72 flew one important reconnaissance mission in fleet operation against Sunderland, and six attacks on England dropping 19,411 kg of bombs. She was intercepted and destroyed by a British fighter on 2 October 1916 near Potters Bar, North of London, while commanded by the leading airship commander of the time, Kapitan Leutnant Helmut Mathy, who perished with his entire crew.
LZ-73 participated in one successful attack on Calais, dropping 1,530 kg bombs. Several other planned attacks were cancelled or aborted due to poor weather. She was decommissioned in August 1917.
LZ-74 participated in one important reconnaissance mission in fleet operation against Sunderland and three attacks on England, dropping 6,860 kg of bombs. She was intercepted and destroyed by British fighter on 24 September 1916 near Burstead, Essex. [Kapitan-Leutnant Werner Petersen]
LZ-75 participated in 17 reconnaissance missions around the North and Baltic Seas and England, and she flew four raids, dropping 6,450 kg of bombs. She was retired on 24 December 1917.
After the war, she was transferred to Japan in 1920 where she was disassembled.
LZ-76 was forced to land near Brentwood, Essex on 24 September 1916 during her first mission, in which 3,200 kg bombs had been dropped. The crew was only partly successful in burning the hull, and British engineers examined the skeleton and later used the plans as a basis for the construction of airships R33 and R34. [Kapitan-Leutnant Alois Bocker]
LZ-77 participated in one attack on Boulogne, France, dropping 1,440 kg of bombs. Several other raids were cancelled or aborted. She was decommissioned in July of 1917.
LZ-78 participated in three reconnaissance missions and two attacks on England, dropping 3,890 kg of bombs. She was intercepted and destroyed by British fighters off Hartlepool on 28 November 1916.
LZ-79 participated in 15 reconnaissance missions around the North Sea and four attacks on England, dropping 6,567 kg of bombs. She was used as a school ship from 11 December 1917 on. Scuttled by her crew on 23 June 1919.
LZ-80 participated in 13 reconnaissance missions around the North and Baltic Sea and three attacks on England dropping 4,284 kg in bombs. She was decommissioned in September 1918.
LZ-81 was never flown by the German Army and was instead transferred to Navy in May of 1917. She participated in seven reconnaissance missions around the Baltic Sea and was decommissioned on 10 August 1917.
LZ-82 participated in 20 flights around the North Sea and England, including four reconnaissance missions. She was damaged during landing in fog at Rehben-an-der-Aller on 7 February 1917 and subsequently decommissioned.
LZ-83 participated in 15 reconnaissance missions around the Eastern Front and the Baltic Sea and three attacks, dropping 6000 kg of bombs. In 1920, she was transferred to France as war reparations.
LZ-85 participated in twelve reconnaissance missions around the North Sea and three attacks on England, dropping 4,700 kg of bombs. She ran out of fuel on 20 October 1917 and was destroyed in forced landing near Sisteron, France; the crew was taken captive.
LZ-86 participated in two reconnaissance missions around the North Sea and one attack on England dropping 300 kg of bombs. Returning from England, she was destroyed by French flak fire near Compiègne on 17 March 1917.
LZ-87 participated in 18 reconnaissance missions and three attacks, dropping 3,240 kg of bombs around the North Sea and England.
On 5 January 1918, a giant explosion in the air base in Ahlhorn tore through three halls, destroying four Zeppelins (including LZ-87) and one other airship. The incident was ruled an accident, although sabotage could not be discounted.
LZ-88 participated in six reconnaissance missions and two attacks on England, dropping 3,105 kg of bombs (a large percentage of which missed their targets). She was damaged beyond repair in a failed landing on 16 June 1917 in Nordholz.
LZ-89 participated in five reconnaissance missions around the North Sea and two attacks on England, dropping 4,135 kg of bombs. She ran out of fuel on 20 October 1917 and was driven to the Mediterranean Sea after a forced landing near Dammartin, France.
LZ-90 participated in 17 reconnaissance missions and three attacks, dropping 11,250 kg bombs around the Eastern Front and the Baltic Sea. She was retired on October 8, 1917.
In 1920, she was transferred to Italy as war reparations. She broke apart a year later while gas was being removed.
First of the "Height-Climber" class, which had a lightened structure to improve altitude. The strength of the structure was therefore compromised, which proved disastrous when unwittingly copied in the British R38, and the American USS Shenandoah.
LZ-91 participated in twenty reconnaissance missions and four attacks on England, dropping 6,030 kg of bombs. She was used as a school ship after 6 June 1918. He crew scuttled her on 23 June 1919.
LZ-92 participated in six reconnaissance missions and one attack on English docks, dropping 1,850 kg of bombs. She was shot down by British fighter aircraft on 14 June 1917 during a reconnaissance mission.
LZ-93 participated in eight reconnaissance missions and four attacks on England and British Navy units. Driven south to France by a heavy storm, she was shot down above Lunéville on 20 October 1917.
LZ-94 participated in 19 reconnaissance missions around the North Sea and three raids on England, dropping 5,700 kg of bombs. She was destroyed in the Ahlhorn explosion (see LZ-87).
LZ-95 participated in one reconnaissance mission; she was intercepted and destroyed by enemy fighter aircraft over the sea near Great Yarmouth during an attempted attack.
LZ-96 participated in two reconnaissance missions around the North Sea and one raid on England, dropping 2,100 kg of bombs. While returning, she was forced to land near Bourbonne-les-Bains on 20 October 1917 and captured almost undamaged by French forces. Plans derived from LZ-96 were later used in the United States for construction of the first US "zeppelin", USS Shenandoah (ZR-1).
LZ-97 participated in three reconnaissance missions and one raid on the English coast, dropping 280 kg of bombs. She was destroyed in the Ahlhorn explosion (see LZ-87).
LZ-98 participated in 20 reconnaissance missions. Following an unexpected storm during a raid, she found herself above London and so dropped 2,020 kg bombs there. She was scuttled by her crew on 23 June 1919.
LZ-99 participated in 14 reconnaissance missions and two attacks on England, dropping 5,840 kg of bombs. She was destroyed together with LZ-108 when seven British Sopwith Camel fighters from the first aircraft carrier, HMS Furious, bombed the halls in Tondern.
LZ-90's captain, Baron Oberleutnant Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels was the most legendary air-captain of the war. He was awarded the Pour le Mérite (the "Blue Max"), a copy of which was affixed to the control gondola of the zeppelin.
LZ-100 participated in 19 reconnaissance missions and four attacks on England, dropping 11,930 kg of bombs. She was intercepted and destroyed by a British Sopwith Camel which took off from a lighter towed by the Destroyer HMS Redoubt, on 11 August 1918.
She was hundredth zeppelin laid down, and the last zeppelin destroyed in the war.
LZ-101 participated in two attacks, dropping 5,450 kg of bombs. Heavily damaged in her second sortie on 19 October 1917, she drifted behind the western front and rose to a Zeppelin all-time world record altitude of 7600 m to escape. She was dismantled following her forced landing.
LZ-104 was stationed in Jamboli, Bulgaria. She was supposed to reinforce German troops in German East Africa, but she did not arrive in time and returned upon reports of German defeat, thereby setting a long-distance flight record (6,757 km in 95 hours).
She participated in one attack on Italy, dropping 6,350 kg of bombs. She crashed during a raid on Malta on 7 April 1918 for unknown reasons.
LZ-106 participated in nine reconnaissance missions and two attacks on England, dropping 4,500 kg bombs. In 1920 she was transferred to Italy as a war reparation.
LZ-107 participated in two reconnaissance missions and two attacks on England, dropping 5,923 kg of bombs. She crashed north of Helgoland on 10 May 1918 for unknown reasons.
LZ-108 participated in 11 reconnaissance missions and one attack on England, dropping 3,120 kg of bombs. She was destroyed together with L-54 when British fighters bombed the halls.
LZ-109 participated in 13 reconnaissance missions over the North Sea and one attack on England, dropping 2,800 kg of bombs. In 1920 she was transferred to England in the context of war reparations, where she was disassembled.
LZ-110 dropped 8,915 kg of bombs in three attacks on England, including participation in the last raid on England on 5 August 1918. She was scuttled by her crew on June 23, 1919.
LZ-112 directed the last raid on England on 5 August 1918, with Pieter Strasser, Commander of the Navy Airship Department, on board. She was intercepted and destroyed over the North Sea, killing all aboard.
The largest military airship yet built, LZ-114 was never delivered due to the end of the war. In 1920 she was transferred to France as a war reparation. Christened Le Dixmude, she made regular trips between France and Algeria before vanishing over the Mediterranean in 1924.
