By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI and PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS, Associated Press

MOGADORE, Ohio (AP) — The iconic Goodyear airships are taking a victory lap over the skies of an Ohio city this week.

The Akron-based tire company is celebrating the 100th anniversary of “Pilgrim,” its first blimp to take flight just outside of the city on June 3, 1925. The airships took to the skies on Tuesday, and will again on Wednesday and Thursday, flying over land that once housed the company’s original hangar.

Jim Crone, who manages airship maintenance, explained why the company chose this swath of land in 1917. “It was secluded. It was away from most of other parts of the city, and it allowed them to build airships here. It’s a lot of property.”

FILE – A Goodyear blimp flies over Michigan Stadium in the first h

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