Ultimate Bay Area Flight-seeing Tour

From our historic headquarters at Moffett Field, a former airship base, you have the entire San Francisco Bay Area, with its perspectives of nature and humans side by side, to explore!

If you have selected our Ultimate Bay Area Tour, you will be heading north, taking in the square blocks of the research parks, colorful geometry of the schools and their sports fields, and the mesmerizing flow of traffic on freeways before, wind and fog permitting, cruising out to the coast. The rows of houses running down to the beach and ocean are starkly contrasted by the green of the Golden Gate Park and the Twin Peaks. And if the fog is around, you’ll get the unusual thrill of seeing it trickling down the hillsides and over the landscape below. You fly over the Golden Gate bridge itself, past the Waterfront and Downtown, Coit Tower and the Bay Bridge and then head south back down the Bay. Oftentimes we are allowed to fly directly over San Francisco airport, a real treat from above. Shoreline Amphitheater marks the return to Moffett field and the colorful salt evaporation ponds - home to some of the weirdest life-forms on Earth!

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!