{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-04-15","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development; Exhibition; Market survey","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"2020-05-22","city":"SUNNYVALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"085","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"21980","engine_horsepower":134,"engine_maker":"EMRAX","engine_model":"268","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"LTA Research","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"LTA RESEARCH & EXPLORATION LLC","maker_segment":"Piloted electric and eVTOL","mfr_mdl_code":"05638VS","mode_s_code":"50063521","mode_s_hex":"A06751","model":"PATHFINDER 1","n_number":"N125LT","name":"LTA RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":12,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lta Research And Exploration LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 22, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N125LT according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N125LT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":14,"serial_number":"001","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"642 N PASTORIA AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Blimp or dirigible","type_aircraft_code":"3","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01297032","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N125LT","watchlist_group":"Airship","watchlist_note":"Pathfinder 1 electric airship, Mountain View, California","weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"940853521"}