The Lighter-Than-Air Society’s 71st Annual Banquet and Silent Auction at Goodyear’s Wingfoot Lake Hangar

Plan to attend
The Lighter-Than-Air Society’s
71st Annual Banquet and Silent Auction

Saturday September 27, 2025
Arrive 5 pm, 6 pm buffet dinner


Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s iconic PR airships with a history provided by a Goodyear airship crew member

Banquet to be held
INSIDE the
Wingfoot Lake Airship Hangar

841 Wingfoot Lake Rd.
Mogadore, OH 44260
(off State Rt 43)

Silent auction!
Items include Goodyear Airship ride for 2; Golf outing for 4 at Firestone North Course; Goodyear-Zeppelin-era girder piece, more!

Buffet dinner includes chicken and beef entrees, potatoes, vegetables, roll & butter, coffee, tea, water, or soda. Vegetarian entrée available by request.

Tickets: $65 per person.

Strictly limited to the first 100 guests who make reservations!

Make reservations via PayPal

How?
Open a PayPal account if you don’t have one
Click yellow DONATE button on our home page https://www.blimpinfo.com
It opens a page, Donate to The Lighter Than Air Society
Put your cursor between the $ and 0, type in amount (multiples of 65)
Hit NEXT
Select how you want to pay
Click Donate Now
You will receive a message:
Thanks for donating $65.00 USD (or whatever amount) to
The Lighter-Than-Air Society

Then send us an email using the Contact Us button in the blimpinfo.com menu tab:
(https://www.blimpinfo.com/contact-us/)

With your name, your email, subject [use BANQUET] and

Your message:
Include first and last name of each attendee (request vegetarian meal here);
contact person’s phone, email, mobile phone number (for text message if required)

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The Lighter-Than-Air Society’s 70th Annual Banquet and Silent Auction is Saturday October 19, 2024

1947 Flxible

Topic: The many lives of a 1947 Flxible Goodyear Airship Operations crew bus
The ongoing restoration of the bus now at the Liberty Aviation Museum will be detailed by Todd Hackbarth, an aviation historian representing the Liberty Aviation Museum.
The streamlined bus was a popular attraction at this year’s Props and Pistons festival at Akron Fulton Airport. Learn more about the bus’s remarkable journey and what lies ahead.

When: Saturday October 19, 2024
6pm buffet dinner, 7pm program

Where: Portage Lakes Kiwanis Civic Center
725 Portage Lakes Dr.
Akron, OH 44319
(off Rt 93 Manchester Rd.)

Silent auction! History display!

Buffet dinner includes chicken and beef entrees, potatoes, vegetables, roll & butter, coffee, tea, or water. Vegetarian entrée available by request.

Tickets: $40 per person. Please indicate entrée(s): (Buffet or Vegetarian), name(s), phone,  email.

Make checks payable to The Lighter Than Air Society and mail payment to:

ATTN BANQUET
The LTA Society
P O Box 5192
Akron, OH 44334-0192

Reservations must reach us by October 14!

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2023 L-T-A Society Banquet: October 21

Join us for LTA Society’s Annual Banquet!
Sat. Oct 21, 2023
5pm social hour, 6pm dinner, 7pm program

Location:
Lala’s Casual Dining
4315 Manchester Rd
Akron OH 44319

Speaker
Lou Young will speak about his father, W. C. Young, and the founding of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. 100 years ago.

Tickets $45 per person; please specify chicken, pork chop, or vegetarian entrée

Mail check or money order to:
ATTN BANQUET
THE LTA SOCIETY
PO BOX 5192
AKRON OH 44334-0192

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Subway introduces flying 180-foot-long footlong

Subway Restaurants debuts a Lightship – the Subway in the Sky – as a capstone to its latest “Eat Fresh” Refresh launch.

Subway in the Sky will take to the skies on September 1, 2023, allowing guests to experience the heights Subway has reached since it began its transformation journey in 2021.

The vessel embodies The Beast, one of the new Deli Hero subs introduced in July that boasts a half pound of its new freshly sliced meat. Underneath the nearly 180-foot-long footlong, Subway transformed the gondola into a floating restaurant that accommodates up to six sandwich lovers per trip.

The Subway in the Sky will stop in cities across the U.S. as it soars through the sky in September, including Kansas City, Atlanta, Orlando, and Miami (flight dates and time subject to change due to weather or other atmospheric conditions).

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The Lighter-Than-Air Society Banquet – 2022

The Lighter-Than-Air Society Banquet

Saturday October 8, 2022 5 p.m.

MAPS Air Museum

260 International Pkwy

North Canton, OH 44720

Featuring an informal presentation by Ed Ogden, Retired Public Relations Specialist, Goodyear Airship Operations: “Reminiscences of life with the Goodyear blimps” Continue reading

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