Goodyear Blimp "Spirit of Innovation" Day

SPIRIT OF INNOVATION DAY

June 21, 2016

1 - 7:30 p.m.

Join The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company for a one-day event to commemorate the 10-year milestone of the Goodyear Blimp Spirit of Innovation christening with an innovation community showcase. The public event, Spirit of Innovation Day, will be held Tuesday, June 21, 2016 from 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Activities will include ground tours of the Goodyear Blimp Spirit of Innovation, a Goodyear Blimp STEM Education Project exhibit and Goodyear product innovations display presented by Just Tires.

About Goodyear Blimp Spirit of Innovation and the Goodyear Blimp fleet

Spirit of Innovation was christened on June 21, 2006 by President of International Speedway Corporation and NASCAR board of directors member Lesa France Kennedy and the wife of former Goodyear Chairman and CEO Bob Keegan. The blimp was the first in Goodyear’s fleet to be named by the public through an online “Name-the-Blimp” contest; the second was Wingfoot One in 2014.

With the introductions of new, state-of-the-art Goodyear Blimp models, Wingfoot One and Wingfoot Two, the Carson-based blimp Spirit of Innovation is now the oldest in Goodyear’s fleet and the last blimp of its kind in the world. Previously based in Pompano Beach, Florida, the blimp arrived in Los Angeles in September 2015 to replace the retired Spirit of America blimp at the Goodyear Airship Operations Base in Carson, Calif.

Spirit of Innovation will remain in California through late 2017, when it will be retired and replaced by Wingfoot Two, which currently operates in Ohio.