After a total of six flights made over a three-week period from the Zeppelin dockyards where the airship had been built, Hindenburg was over Hugo Eckener's for a formal public debut in a Nazi Party propaganda flight around Germany (Die Deutschlandfahrt) made jointly with the Graf Zeppelin from March 26 to 29.Lehmann 1937, pp. 323–332. This was to be followed by its first commercial passenger flight, a four-day transatlantic voyage to Rio de Janeiro that departed from the Friedrichshafen Airport in nearby Löwenthal on March 31.Lehmann 1937, p. 341. After again departing from Löwenthal on 6 May on its first of ten round trips to North America made in 1936,"Hindenburg Begins First U.S. Flight." New York Times, May 7, 1936. all Hindenburgs subsequent transatlantic flights to both North and South America originated at the airport at Frankfurt am Main."Hindenburg is off on 2d U.S. Flight." New York Times, May 17, 1936."Hindenburg Flight Schedules." Airships.net. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
After a total of six flights made over a three-week period from the Zeppelin dockyards where the airship had been built, Hindenburg was over Hugo Eckener's for a formal public debut in a Nazi Party propaganda flight around Germany (Die Deutschlandfahrt) made jointly with the Graf Zeppelin from March 26 to 29.Lehmann 1937, pp. 323–332. This was to be followed by its first commercial passenger flight, a four-day transatlantic voyage to Rio de Janeiro that departed from the Friedrichshafen Airport in nearby Löwenthal on March 31.Lehmann 1937, p. 341. After again departing from Löwenthal on 6 May on its first of ten round t,rips to North America made in 1936,"Hindenburg Begins First U.S. Flight." New York Times, May 7, 1936. all Hindenburgs subsequent transatlantic flights to both North and South America originated at the airport at Frankfurt am Main."Hindenburg is off on 2d U.S. Flight." New York Times, May 17 1936."Hindenburg Flight Schedules." Airships.net. Retrieved October 27, 2010.