The Best Planes For Customization In GTA Online

Summary

• In GTA Online, planes are valuable assets for fast travel and combat, including customization options.
• The Smuggler’s Run DLC added 14 new aircraft, each with unique features like bomb bays and machine guns.
• Planes like the Western Seabreeze, Buckingham Pyro, and V-65 Molotok offer diverse performance and weapon customization options.

In GTA Online, planes are one of the fastest ways to get around San Andreas. Even with vehicles seemingly getting faster and faster with each passing update, planes, helicopters and all aircraft alike have proven to be some of the most valuable assets to any GTA Online character’s career, even if they can be a hassle to get to the predetermined spawning location on the map.

With the Smuggler’s Run DLC, Rockstar Games added a stunning 14 new aircraft to the somewhat lacking fleet in the game, giving players a new place to store aircraft in the Hanger business in the process. On top of that, players can purchase a Hanger Workshop upgrade when buying a Hanger, allowing the modification and customization of their shiny, new plane.

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Western Seabreeze

A Boat And Plane In One

The Western Seabreeze is an odd-looking plane. Its propellor sits on a housing on top of the tail, the door to the cockpit is accessed by the cockpit window opening up like a hatch, and it is a seaplane. While not exactly a new thing to the Grand Theft Auto universe, seaplanes are usually slower-moving crafts with big, bulky floats or pontoons keeping the fuselage away from the water.

The Seabreeze bucks that trend by being a zippy little plane, especially with performance and handling upgrades. It can be outfitted with a bomb bay, letting players drop different kinds of bombs like incendiary, gas, or cluster bombs. It can also house dual machine guns on the wings, letting players shoot back at pursuers, as well as flare or chaff countermeasures.

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Buckingham Pyro

Twin-Tailed And Turbocharged

With its twin-boom tails, the Buckingham Pyro is a unique plane with a lot under the hood. Contrary to its design, the Pyro is a maneuverable and tight-turning airplane at stock, making it a great choice for dogfighting. While the machine guns are somewhat lackluster, the Pyro can also be outfitted with homing missiles mounted under the wings, and a standard set of countermeasures.

Besides the livery and painting options, the Pyro with performance upgrades becomes the second-fastest plane in GTA Online, now only outperformed by the ​​​​​​​popular F-160 Raiju fighter jet. However, beyond that, there is not much in the realm of customization for the Pyro left over.

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V-65 Molotok

Slow And Steady

The V-65 Molotok is Rockstar Games’ take on an older Russian fighter jet. It features a strange air intake for the nose and a sleek profile in the air, all while jetting around at average speeds.

The Molotok comes standard with twin machine guns on the nose, with the option of adding dual pods of homing missiles. The Molotok can also be fitted with drop tanks on the wings, though they provide no benefit and are only cosmetic. It also features a number of military liveries and countermeasures.

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LF-22 Starling

It’s Not A Bird, It’s A Plane

Since the LF-22 Starling is named after a little bird, it makes sense that it’s a nimble and aerodynamic jet. Its small and compact body provides the Starling with very average performance overall. However, there is one upgrade that turns this teeny tiny plane into ​​​​​​​a bird of prey.

The Starling can be outfitted with a Rocket Boost Upgrade, giving it super-speed on tap to help with dive-bombing tactics. The Starling can also carry the standard homing missiles as well as a bomb bay for increased firepower.

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Nagasaki Ultralight

Cruising Around At The Speed Of Wind

The Nagasaki Ultralight is an intriguing aircraft. While not classified as a full-blown plane and more of a glider, the Ultralight is a lot more nimble than other options. On top of the performance upgrades and various livery choices for the glider, the Ultralight can be kitted out with a couple of different propellors. While both the stock and extended propellors are only cosmetic changes, the Muffled Carbon Propellor provides players with reduced radar detection on take-off and while gliding in the air.

The Ultralight can also be an easy target for enemy aircraft. It can be outfitted with the player’s choice of flares, which helps avoid homing missiles, or chaff, which prevents lock-on capable weapons for a short time. Players can also purchase a gimbal turret for their Ultralight, providing the glider with some armament, though the guns are weak against ​​​​​​​armored vehicles.

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Western Company Rogue

Guns, Missiles, And More Guns

The Western Company Rogue has a number of customization options available. While the livery and painting options, along with the standard performance upgrades, come as expected, the Rogue has a number of weapon upgrades available too.

The Rogue comes with no weapons at stock, so players will have to pay extra for their choice of either ​​​​​​​machine guns or explosive cannons. The machine guns are the standard guns found on most planes, while the explosive cannons available for the Rogue are found on the P-996 LAZER fighter jet, the Hydra jet, and the F-160 Raiju. Players can also add homing missiles as secondary weapons if they choose.

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Mammoth Mogul

Bring A Flight Crew

Based on a World War Two-era strike aircraft, the Mammoth Mogul is not the prettiest sight in the sky. It flies at an average pace on par with some of the medium-sized aircraft in its class, but it shines in its available modifications.

The Mogul comes outfitted with a bubble turret with a single .50 caliber machine gun for a gunner, and another gun on the nose for the pilot. Players can opt for dual guns for both the turret and nose gun to increase the Mogul’s firepower, and a bomb bay. The Mogul can also support Jet-Assisted Take-Off, or JATO, which propels the Mogul forward at lightning speed for a quick take-off. On top of all of that, the livery choices and countermeasures make the Mogul a great plane to fly with a crew.

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Mammoth Tula

Seaplane With A Party Trick

The Mammoth Tula is one of the few planes in GTA Online capable of Vertical Take-Off and Landing, or VTOL. Adding to its VTOL ability, it is also a seaplane, allowing it to land on virtually any surface, making the Tula excellent for utility.

Aside from its ​​​​​​​amphibious features, the Tula can be fitted with JATO thrusters for quick take-offs on both land and water, and the gunner’s seat in the back can be upgraded to either dual .50 caliber guns or even a minigun for a bullet-spitting machine. The Tula can also carry a bomb bay and either flare or chaff countermeasures.

2

RM-10 Bombushka

Enemy Gunship In The Air

With a massive wingspan, and a body that could make the Titan blush, the RM-10 Bombushka is one hulking mass of firepower. Inside its roomy fuselage, players can control remote turrets that sit on the Bombushka’s nose, rear, and on top of the plane.

Those turrets come as dual .50 caliber guns, but both the nose guns and the rear guns can be upgraded to 30mm explosive cannons, similar to the cannon on the Valkyrie helicopter. The Bombushka can also be fitted with a JATO system, allowing the beast to get to altitude quickly. There is also a bomb bay upgrade available to players.

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Mammoth Avenger

Mother Of All VTOL

• Price: $3,450,000 – $6,237,500

The Mammoth Avenger is the most utility players can find in an airplane. It is purchased via the Warstock Cache and Carry website and can be stored in either a player’s ​​​​​​​Doomsday Heist Facility or a Hanger. It has a full-on interior which can be customized, and even three gun turrets.

Not only that, but it can house both a Mark Two Weapons Workshop and a Vehicle Workshop for the player’s weaponized vehicles. Only adding to the utility, in the Hanger workshop there are unique upgrades available, such as the Avenger’s own Thruster jetpack, a Stealth Module, and a Missile Lock-On Jammer. Finally, the Avenger can be held in the air with an autopilot mode. The Avenger truly is a one-of-a-kind aircraft with all the utility in the world and then some.