The Aeroplane , also known as the Air Train , is an uncontrollable passenger airplane appearing in Grand Theft Auto III , Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand
The Aeroplane, also known as the Air Train, is an uncontrollable passenger airplane appearing in GTA III, GTA: Vice City, GTA: Liberty City Stories and GTA: Vice City Stories. The uncontrollable vehicle is left unused in GTA: San Andreas.
The vehicle is named after the European aerospace corporation Airbus SE, and certain details of the vehicle such as the windshield are reminiscent of those on older Airbus models. It also appears to take inspiration from the Boeing 727, with adjustments made to its design such as shorter outboard engines and differently designed wing ailerons.
The original design in Grand Theft Auto III is depicted as a DMAir plane, which is itself a reference to DMA Design, Rockstar North's former name. The logo is replaced with the Air Rockstar company logo in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. On the landing gear doors is "T2", which is a reference to Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar Games's parent company.
Both the vehicle and static versions have been redesigned in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, now having less and bigger windows, a hump and raised cockpit reminiscent of the Boeing 747 and a more cartoonish look overall. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the appearance of the actual vehicle has been reverted to its original design, while its static variant appears as a Plummet Airlines passenger airplane with an extra floor for its cockpit, also similar to a Boeing 747.
The Aeroplane has been left unused in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas due to the previous path-controlled air traffic system being replaced with a limited AI-controlled air traffic system using normal vehicles with normal vehicle physics. Only its textureless model, handling data and in-game text string are left in the game files, revealing that the vehicle has been renamed to "Air Train" to keep consistency with its data name before being ultimately cut.
In , the Airtrains found at Escobar International Airport feature various colored paint jobs, without liveries. The colors include bright red, yellow, cyan and black. The standard 'Rockstar' branded variant remains white.
In , the vehicle is absent; however, static planes intended to represent the stationary planes from Grand Theft Auto III can be found in Francis International Airport.
The vehicle uses colored coronastar effects to simulate the airplane's navigation lights. As the Aeroplane takes off and reaches the game's height limit, it uses a white line effect to simulate far away contrails, only intended to be seen from afar.
