South Bay Flight-seeing Tour

Our tours start from our historic headquarters at Moffett Field. An altogether different experience is yours on our South Bay Scenery Tour. As the urban sprawl moves away from the business centers, the flat of the silicon valley gives way to the gently rolling Los Altos, Saratoga and Los Gatos hills. Enjoy the stunning landscaped acres and architecture of Filoli and Montalvo, the Tuscan style vineyards, the large Tudor styled estates, the horse arenas and barns and the numerous golf courses. Highway 17 snakes up into the Santa Cruz mountains above the delightful Los Gatos downtown and sparkling Lake Vasona. This is the life!

Airship Ventures brought a Zeppelin NT airship to California for daily sight seeing flights, advertising operations, corporate and event occasions and scientific missions. We started operations from Moffett Field, North Oakland, Monterey and Long Beach airports in November 2008.

“Eureka” means “I’ve found it” and from the reactions of our guests, that would seem to be the sentiment that captures the unique experience of flying on the Zeppelin “Eureka”. Others have described it as a ‘personal cloud’ or ‘knowing what birds feel like’.

For some, its much quieter than they were expecting, a smoother ride, more comfortable. For everyone, it’s over far too quickly!

Cruising at around 1300 feet, you are high enough to be non intrusive, but low enough to see amazing details. Your speed is around 35mph, which is a stately and serene speed to view the world at. Take off and landing are very rapid and you are only in your seat for the minute or so it takes us to reach cruising altitude.

Surrounded by huge windows, two of which open, and with the comforts of leather seating and an onboard restroom, this is a real skybox!