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airship

powered lighter-than-air aircraft
Thing aircraft_class Q133585
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Summary

airship is an aircraft class[1]. airship ranks in the top 4% of aircraft class entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,019 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Operator: United States Navy[3]
  • Subclass of: aerostat[4], aircraft[5]
  • Commons category: Airships[6]
  • Has part(s): gondola[7], gas cell[8]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1852[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Airships[10]
  • Commons gallery: Airship[11]
  • Described by source: Sytin Military Encyclopedia[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Otto's encyclopedia[14]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox airship[15]
  • Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/02692877-n[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]

Why It Matters

airship has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] airship is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Mariobanana · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pixiv encyclopedia id → 飛行船
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Pixiv encyclopedia id: 飛行船"
  2. 11w ago · Jlwoodwa · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for eponymous categories → Q129079298
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after airships"
  3. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → airships
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: airships, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289912129|airships (#289912129)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  4. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004425-vzducholode
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004425-vzducholode, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  5. 22w ago · Putnik · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → dirizablis
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: dirizablis"
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