Editing Detroit ZMC-2 (section)

{{short description|Metal skinned airship}}
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{{Infobox aircraft
 | name=ZMC-2
 | image= File:Zmc-2 1929.jpg
 | caption=
 | type=Metal-clad [[airship]]
 | national_origin=United States
 | manufacturer=[[Detroit Aircraft Corporation]]
 | designer=
 | first_flight=August 19, 1929
 | introduction=
 | retired= 1941
 | status=Scrapped 
 | primary_user=[[U.S. Navy]]
 | more_users= <!--Limited to three in total; separate using <br /> -->
 | produced=1926–29
 | number_built=1
 | developed_from= 
 | variants=
}}

The '''ZMC-2''' (Zeppelin Metal Clad 200,000 cubic foot capacity)<ref name=Morrow>Morrow, Walker C. and Carl B. Fritsche. ''The Metalclad Airship ZMC-2''. 1967.<!--publisher & place?--></ref> was the only successfully operated metal-skinned [[airship]] ever built.<ref>The 1897 airship of [[David Schwarz (aviation inventor)|David Schwarz]] was the first airship that was metal-skinned, although Schwarz's ship had an internal framework rather than a [[monocoque]] design.</ref> Constructed at [[Naval Air Station Grosse Ile]] by The Aircraft Development Corporation of Detroit,<ref name=Morrow /> the ZMC-2 was operated by the [[United States Navy]] at [[Naval Air Station Lakehurst]], [[New Jersey]], from 1929 until its scrapping in 1941. While at Lakehurst it completed 752 flights, and logged 2265 hours of flight time.<ref name="Outlaw p. 7">Outlaw 2004, p. 7</ref>