Aircraft

Aircraft are vehicles seen in the Mafia series.

History[]

Aircraft are fixed or rotary wing vehicles capable of self-sustaining flight, typically powered by either a rotary or jet engine. They appear in Mafia, Mafia II, and Mafia III. They are inoperable by the player and appear as scripted events or static displays.

Appearances[]

Mafia[]

They first appear in Omerta at the Lost Heaven International Airport where they can be seen in hangars, on runways, and in the air.
Their second appearance is in Crème De La Crème where Tommy Angelo, Sam, and Paulie shoot down Don Morello's airplane as it attempts to take off and escape Lost Heaven.
In the mission Airplane Chase in the Free Ride Extreme mode, Tommy has to chase after an airplane with a car.

Mafia II[]

One of the two B-17's flying over Little Italy

They first appear in Mafia II during Home Sweet Home, where a large formation of USAAF B-17 aircraft can be seen flying over Empire Bay as Joe Barbaro takes Vito Scaletta to Freddy's Bar in Little Italy.
Later as Vito makes his way home after being dropped off by a taxi, two B-17 Flying Fortresses can be seen flying above.
For the remainder of the game airplanes can be seen flying high above Empire Bay either alone or in formations of three.

Mafia III[]

Airplanes appear in Mafia III as scripted events in the missions Are We Cool and Hot Rubber & Cold Blood, both involving air drops.
They can also be seen parked on the tarmac of Marais Airport and the unnamed airport seen in North Lake.
A crashed cargo plane is featured in Stones Unturned, which Lincoln Clay and John Donovan visit while tracking down The Nuke.
After Lincoln and Donovan retrieve the nuke on the Unknown Island, it is airlifted away using a CH-47 Chinook helicopter.

Mafia: DE[]

Frank Colletti and his family leave Lost Heaven in an aircraft in the mission Omerta.
Don Morello attempts to escape in an aircraft during the mission Crème de la Crème before being shot down by Tommy Angelo, Paulie Lombardo, and Sam Trapani.
They can be seen flying around Lost Heaven.

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Trivia[]

The airplanes in Mafia are based on the Ford Trimotor.
In the 1940s era of Mafia II, radio announcer Lowell Harris of Press Radio News makes a reference to the World War II British fighter aircraft The Spitfire.
In North Lake Airport of Mafia III, the airliners parked on the tarmac seem to resemble Boeing 707, an quad-jet airliner commonly flying worldwide in the 1960s.
The airplanes in Mafia: Definitive Edition are based on the Metal Aircraft Flamingo and the Lockheed Model 10 Electra.