The GZ-20 featured a larger envelope to carry the "Super-Skytacular" advertising night sign and more powerful engines.

her structural elements were freighted from the Goodyear factory in Akron, Ohio to the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Cardington, Bedfordshire, England on an Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy to be erected there but based at a new facility at Capena, Italy near Rome.

The blimp received a Guinness World Record for the longest continuous operated airship with fourteen years of service.

In September 2015, Spirit of Innovation, the world's only remaining active GZ-20, was relocated to Carson, California[4] from its former base in Pompano Beach, Florida.

The gondola from Spirit of America was donated to the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California.