1935 Graf Zeppelin Seventh Flight

1935 Graf Zeppelin Seventh Flight postcard. German 1M Zeppelin stamp and three other Third Reich issues. Posted onboard Graf Zeppelin during the flight from Friedrichshafen to Brazil, but dropped enroute at Larache, Spanish Morocco. Europe-Sudamerika cachet. Larache arrival backstamp on reverse.

The LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German passenger airship named after its creator, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. It was in service from 1928 to 1937, making 590 flights and travelling over a million miles during its lifespan. In 1932 the Graf began five years of regular services between Germany and Brazil. It made 64 trips to Brazil during this period, and at its height was operating a fortnightly service, becoming the world’s first regularly scheduled, nonstop, intercontinental airline route. After the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 it was withdrawn from service & later scrapped for military aircraft production in 1940.