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Spy baskets were used on, among others, Schütte-Lanz and Zeppelin airships. As of 1997, it was not always certain which airships used them: the blueprints for LZ 62 (L 30) and LZ 72 (L 31) included the spy basket operating plant but the German Navy was no longer installing them at that time; however a fish-shaped spy basket can be seen on photographs of the German Army LZ 83 (tactical number LZ 113). The Imperial War Museum in London exhibits a Zeppelin observation car that was found near Colchester after the Zeppelin air raid of September 2, 1916 which is believed to have fallen from the LZ 90. After the war the Americans briefly experimented with a spy basket on the USS Akron.
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