LTA Research PATHFINDER 1
N125LT is a LTA Research PATHFINDER 1, an airship powered by electric motors, built in 2023. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Lta Research And Exploration LLC, an LLC in Sunnyvale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; exhibition; market survey, dated April 15, 2026.
LTA Research: Pathfinder 1 electric airship, Mountain View, California
Aircraft
- Maker
- LTA Research (United States)FAA spelling: LTA RESEARCH & EXPLORATION LLC
- Model
- PATHFINDER 1
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Blimp or dirigible
- Power
- Electric, 12 motors · Emrax 268 · 134 hp
- Seats
- 14
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A06751 (octal 50063521)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Exhibition; Market survey · April 15, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01297032
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lta Research And Exploration LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 642 N Pastoria Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94085-3521
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N125LT, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Lta Research And Exploration LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 22, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 15, 2026, 3 years after the 2023 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N125LT according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N125LT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data