With the advent of commercial dirigibles, the archipelago was over-flown in 1924, 1927 and 1930, by Zeppelins making the connection between Germany and the United States.
In April 1926, a Fokker hydroplane, baptized Infante de Sagres, departed from Lisbon, under the command of Portuguese Navy pilots Moreira de Campos and Neves Ferreira, intentionally to connect Madeira and the Azores, arriving in Ponta Delgada on 9 May 1926 [REF].