This is a first for me. When I was a kid I've seen a few blimps on occasion. I remember when the Sanyo Blimp came to Smyrna TN when i was a kid and i lived there. And the Goodyear Blimp. When I moved back to Emporia KS I saw the Budweiser Blimp passing through and the Sanyo blimp stopped at our Emporia Airport. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a00002
Goodyear has facilities all over the US for that very reason. the Original base being in OH, global HQ of the Goodyear Company.