In 1960, the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) named "Krebs Glacier" a glacier flowing west into the head of Charlotte Bay on the west coast of Graham Land in the Antarctic continent, after the name of Arthur C. Krebs who constructed and flew, with Charles Renard, the first dirigible airship capable of steady flight under control, in 1884.
Following in his older brother Hillary's footsteps, he worked as a ground crewman for dirigible pilot Thomas Scott Baldwin.
; 1905 : Lincoln Beachey pilots the dirigible Gelatine from the grounds of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition on the shores of Guild's Lake in Portland, Oregon to Vancouver Barracks in the first aerial crossing of the Columbia River.
In 1940, property owner Godfrey Lowell Cabot offered the site to the United States Navy for use as the location of its main New England dirigible base.
The world's first dirigible airship, property of Mr. Phileas Fogg of London, it combines unexampled luxury, total mobility and an extraordinary array of weapons and gadgets.
In 1914 he returned to dirigible design and development, and built the U.S. Navy's first successful dirigible, the DN-I.