"Los Angeles" was decommissioned in 1932 as an economy measure, but was recommissioned after the crash of in April 1933. She flew for a few more years and then retired to her Lakehurst hangar where she remained until 1939, when the airship was struck off the Navy list and was dismantled in her hangar. "Los Angeles" was the Navy's longest serving rigid airship. Unlike , "Akron", and , the German-built "Los Angeles" was the only Navy rigid airship which did not meet a disastrous end.