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The R80 was a British rigid airship first flown on 19 July 1920 and the first fully streamlined airship to be built in Britain. Originally a military project for the British Admiralty she was completed for commercial passenger-carrying purposes. However R80 proved too small for this role and after being briefly used to train the United States Navy personnel who were to crew the ill-fated ZR-2 airship she was retired eventually being scrapped in 1925.