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[[Translation:en/Manual/Aircraft]]
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The first '''Aircraft''' are designed in 1928.

'''Aircraft''' are the most efficient and profitable [[en/Manual/Vehicles|method of transport]] of passengers in the game, with large capacities and the capability to travel long distances much more quickly than a [[en/Manual/Trains|train]].

Aircraft also are capable of carrying small amounts of mail, and many can be [[en/Manual/Refit]]ted to carry other types of cargo as well.  However, since their capacity to carry either mail or other cargo is fairly small their usefulness in carrying anything but passengers is limited, especially when compared to trains.

Beyond [[en/Manual/Airport construction|building airports]], no infrastructure is required for [[en/Manual/Buying aircraft|buying an aircraft]].  Airports do take up large amounts of space however, and so finding (or creating) enough flat land in a reasonably central location within a city can be challenging. Airports successfully placed inside in a large city will rapidly overflow with cargo. They are ultimately limited by the number of gates in the airport, and the long delays in landing and loading cargo.

OpenTTD contains helicopters, but most players consider them almost useless: they're slow; the capacities are very small; they cost almost as much as a plane and in the future era they become obsolete without an endgame replacement. Nevertheless, the miniscule footprint for helipads occasionally tempts players to try using them anyway. Some players put multiple helipads within one city as an expensive, but faster replacement for buses.

Below are links to a Comparison table and the plane database, with planes grouped by type, then sorted by design date.

==List of aircraft==
*[[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Air Comparison|Aircraft comparison table]]

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!width="50%" style="background: #ccffcc" | Temperate/Arctic/Tropical
!width="50%" style="background: #ff9999" | Toyland
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! colspan="2" style="background: #3e2ff3; color:white" align="center" | Small aeroplanes
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*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/JunkersJU52.png|Sampson U52]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Sampson U52]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/DouglasDC-3Dakota.png|Bakewell Cotswald LB-3]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Bakewell Cotswald LB-3]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/VickersViscount.png|Coleman Count]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Coleman Count]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/McDonnellDouglasDC-9.png|Bakewell Luckett LB-9]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Bakewell Luckett LB-9]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/BritishAerospaceBAe46.png|Yate Aerospace YAe46]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Yate Aerospace YAe46]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Fokker100.png|Dinger 100]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Dinger 100]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/AirTaxiA34-1000.png|Airtaxi A34-1000]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Airtaxi A34-1000]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/YateZ-Shuttle.png|Yate Z-Shuttle]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Yate Z-Shuttle]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/KellingK1.png|Kelling K1]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Kelling K1]]
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*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Ploddyphut100.png|Ploddyphut 100]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Ploddyphut 100]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Ploddyphut500.png|Ploddyphut 500]][[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Ploddyphut 500]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Flashbang X1.png|Flashbang X1]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Flashbang X1]]
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! colspan="2" style="background: #3e2ff3; color:white" align="center" | Large aeroplanes
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*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/AërospatialeSE-310Caravelle.png|FFP Dart]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/FFP Dart]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/McDonnellDouglasDC-8.png|Bakewell Luckett LB-8]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Bakewell Luckett LB-8]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Boeing727.png|Darwin 100]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Darwin 100]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/BritishAerospaceBAC1-11.png|Yate Aerospace YAC 1-11]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Yate Aerospace YAC 1-11]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Boeing737.png|Darwin 200]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Darwin 200]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Boeing747.png|Darwin 300]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Darwin 300]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/BAC-AërospatialConcorde.png|Yate Haugan]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Yate Haugan]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/LockheedTristar.png|Guru Galaxy]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Guru Galaxy]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/McDonnelDouglasDC-10.png|Bakewell Luckett LB-10]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Bakewell Luckett LB-10]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/AirbusA300.png|Airtaxi A21]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Airtaxi A21]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/McDonnellDouglasMD80.png|Bakewell Luckett LB80]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Bakewell Luckett LB80]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/AirbusA300.png|Airtaxi A31]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Airtaxi A31]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Boeing757.png|Darwin 400]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Darwin 400]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Boeing767.png|Darwin 500]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Darwin 500]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/AirbusA320.png|Airtaxi A32]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Airtaxi A32]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/McDonnellDouglasMD-11.png|Bakewell Luckett LB-11]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Bakewell Luckett LB-11]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/AirbusA330.png|Airtaxi A33]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Airtaxi A33]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/AirbusA330.png|Darwin 600]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Darwin 600]]

*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Dinger1000.png|Dinger 1000]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Dinger 1000]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Dinger200.png|Dinger 200]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Dinger 200]]

*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/KellingK6.png|Kelling K6]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Kelling K6]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/FFPHyperdart2.png|FFP Hyperdart 2]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/FFP Hyperdart 2]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/KellingK7.png|Kelling K7]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Kelling K7]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Darwin700.png|Darwin 700]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Darwin 700]]
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*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/JuggerplaneM1.png|Juggerplane M1]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Juggerplane M1]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Flashbangwizzer.png|Flashbang Wizzer]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Flashbang Wizzer]]
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! colspan="2" style="background: #3e2ff3; color:white" align="center" | Helicopters
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*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/SikorskyHelicopter.png|Tricario Helicopter]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Tricario Helicopter]]
*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/GuruX2Helicopter.png|Guru X2 Helicopter]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Guru X2 Helicopter]]
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*[[File:en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Powernauthelicopter.png|Powernaut Helicopter]] [[en/Manual/Base Set/Aircraft/Powernaut Helicopter]]
|}

Small aeroplanes are able to land on small and commuter airports without crashing as frequently as the larger ones. A useful technique is to override the colour of small aircraft to something different to your default, which makes them easy to spot when you build aircraft.

==Accidents==
[[File:en/Manual/Crashed airplane.png|200px|thumb|left|A crashed airplane, with some buildings removed for clarity.]]

[[File:en/Manual/Mass-crash.png|200px|thumb|right|This happens when there is no airport on which the planes can land.]] 

Aircraft will occasionally crash on entering an airport.  This will block the runway it lands on for a while and lower your ratings at the airport considerably.

Airplanes have with default settings a small chance (0.07%) of crashing each time they land at an airport. Big planes have a high chance (5%) to crash in ''small'' or ''commuter'' airports.  Keep this in mind when building small airports! The amount of these random plane crashes can be configured in the advanced settings under Disasters/Accidents -> Number of plane crashes (Advanced Settings).

Aircraft will also crash when all airports of that company in the game are destroyed (actually when the ghost station that remains after destroying the airport has disappeared also). The aircrafts will explode in mid-air and crash.

Aircraft crashes can be almost completely disabled from the Advanced settings menu (Advanced settings -> Disasters/Accidents -> Number of plane crashes -> set to "none"). '''Note:''' Large aircraft always have a possibility of crashing when landing in small or commuter airports.

[[Category:en/Manual/Aircraft]]
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