The Skimmer is a propeller seaplane featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories .
The Skimmer is a propeller seaplane featured in GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas and GTA: Vice City Stories.
In all of its appearances, the Skimmer is simply a Dodo (based on the Cessna 152) with a pair of large pontoons on the bottom in place of landing gears; the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas rendition further includes reinforcement on the connection between the pontoons and the fuselage, as well as harnesses between the pontoons and fuselage and the tailfin. While the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories renditions have a two-bladed propeller, the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas rendition comes with a four-bladed propeller.
While able to land on water, the Skimmer in GTA Vice City does not feature any functional doors, resulting in the player getting warped inside the plane when entering. If the player exits the plane, however, they are immediately spawned on top of the wing of the plane. This problem was rectified in GTA San Andreas, in which the door of the plane can be opened, and the player can enter and exit through the doors, a feature only possible with Carl Johnson's ability to swim, which Tommy Vercetti does not have. Similarly, in GTA Vice City Stories, if the player enters the Skimmer, they will be warped.
Unlike the Dodo, the Skimmer in GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas may come in a variety of two-tone body colors (as opposed to the same red-and-white color scheme of the Dodo). The Skimmer in GTA Vice City Stories simply comes with an all-grey body color.
