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Airship Norge (N-1)
Stabilimento di Costruzioni Aeronautiche (SCA) · Polar Exploration Airship / Polar Exploration / Transpolar Transit · Italy / Norway · Interwar (1919–1938)
The Norge was a semi-rigid Italian-built airship that carried out the first verified trip of any kind to the North Pole, an overflight on 11 through 14 May 1926. It was also the first aircraft to fly over the polar ice cap between Europe and America. The expedition was the brainchild of polar explorer and expedition leader Roald Amundsen, the airship's designer and pilot Umberto Nobile and the wealthy American adventurer and explorer Lincoln Ellsworth who, along with the Norwegian Aviation Society, financed the trip, which was known as the Amundsen-Ellsworth 1926 Transpolar Flight.
Specifications
- Category
- Airship
- Sub-Category
- Semi-Rigid Airship
- Domain
- Civil
- Era
- Interwar (1919–1938)
- Country
- Italy / Norway
- Manufacturer
- Stabilimento di Costruzioni Aeronautiche (SCA)
- Operator
- Umberto Nobile / Roald Amundsen expedition
- Primary Role
- Polar Exploration Airship / Polar Exploration / Transpolar Transit
- Status
- Retired
- Service Entry
- 1926
- Produced
- 1
- Engine
- 3x Maybach Mb IVa inline
- Thrust / Power
- 245 hp each
- Launch
- Ground (mooring mast)
- Length (ft)
- 348
- Wingspan (ft)
- 52
- MTOW (lb)
- 39680
- Payload (lb)
- 9920
- Endurance (hr)
- 70
- Range (mi)
- 6800
- Max Speed (mph)
- 70