This left only one Y-wing, piloted by Evaan Verlaine. Versio was in the process of locking onto Verlaine's Y-wing when the Death Star abruptly exploded. Verlaine was the only Y-wing pilot of Gold Squadron to survive the assault, and returned to the Rebellion's headquarters on Yavin 4 with the other survivors.
Sources published in the many years following the game's release would identify Farlander as the pilot of the Y-wing seen flying away from the exploding Death Star alongside the Millennium Falcon and Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles' X-wings in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.
The Alliance's desperate assault on the Death Star was successful, but costly. Of the twelve members of Red Squadron, only two—Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles—survived the assault. All members of Gold Squadron except Keyan Farlander reportedly died as well.
Famous Y-wing pilots included Jon Vander, who led Gold Squadron during the Battle of Yavin; Keyan Farlander, the only surviving member from Gold Squadron in the attack; Davish Krail, who had flown them for five years; and Horton Salm, one of the New Republic's foremost Y-wing pilots.
Jon Vander, nicknamed “Dutch,” is a former Imperial pilot who defected when he was ordered to bomb rebel-friendly areas of his home planet. As Gold Leader in the rebellion, Vander flies a Y-wing and commands a squadron of gifted pilots.
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By the Galactic Civil War, many Y-wings were stripped of their hull plating and engine nacelles, shortening their length to 16.24 meters, for ease of maintenance, as their older parts often broke down, and models that eliminated the gunner's turret had been introduced.
Prior to the destruction of the first Death Star, Cesi Eirriss flew a T-65 X-wing starfighter as Red Four for the Rebel Alliance's Red Squadron. After she was killed over Commenor, John D. Branon became her replacement and flew during the pivotal Battle of Yavin in which he lost his life.
Luke Skywalker flying as Red Five during the Battle of Yavin. At the climax of the Clone Wars, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker flew an Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor in the Battle of Coruscant under the designation Red Five.
Luke Skywalker's best friend from Tatooine, Biggs Darklighter flew as Red 3 at the Battle of Yavin. He was gunned down by Darth Vader as Luke neared the end of his race down the Death Star trench.
His tactical genius and skill in the air made him a legend in his own time and inspired generations of pilots. Another notable ace is Erich Hartmann, a German fighter pilot during World War II. He is the highest-scoring fighter ace in history, with 352 confirmed kills.
He didn't have a code name, he had a call sign for his fighter. In the novelisation of Star Wars - From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, he was part of Blue Squadron, but in the film he was in Red Squadron. His fighter was fifth in the squadron so his call sign was Red Five.
Erich Hartmann, with 352 official kills the highest scoring fighter pilot of all time. In World War II many air forces adopted the British practice of crediting fractional shares of aerial victories, resulting in fractions or decimal scores, such as 11+1⁄2 or 26.83.
Anakin Skywalker and Plo Koon led Shadow Squadron's clone pilots against the Separatist battleship. To catch up with the Malevolence, Anakin tried a risky strategy, leading the Y-wings through the hazardous Kaliida Nebula along an old smuggler route known as the Balmorra Run.
Out of the 2 billion inhabitants on Alderaan - with the modern-day populations of China and India having about 2.8 billion people combined - about 60,000 survived the destruction of the planet due to being outside of its star system at the time.
The Rebels launched a desperate attack, and a young pilot named Luke Skywalker -- strong with the Force -- flew an X-wing down the Death Star's trench, making the impossible shot. The space station was destroyed, and Tarkin with it.
In Rogue One (2016), the original "Red Five" (Pedrin Gaul) was killed when his X-wing was destroyed by TIE fighters during the Battle of Scarif, leaving the callsign to be used by Luke Skywalker during the Battle of Yavin and ultimately destroying the Death Star.
Red Seven was the callsign of the seventh member of Red Squadron. There were a number of starfighter squadrons with this name, and several beings went by the name Red Seven. Rebel Alliance pilot Elyhek Rue used the callsign during the Battle of Yavin. Keir Santage flew as Red Seven during the Battle of Endor.
Red Eight was the callsign given to the eighth member of Red Squadron. Rebel pilot Zal Dinnes flew under the callsign around the time of the Battle of Scarif and during the Battle of Yavin.
Jek Porkins was a pilot and trader who abandoned his homeworld when the Empire moved in and developed a new military base there. The burly rebel pilot flew an X-wing at the Battle of Yavin under the call sign Red 6.
Nozzo Naytaan was a human male Rebel pilot and lieutenant who served in the Galactic Civil War. A member of Red Squadron, he flew in the Battle of Scarif with the callsign of Red Nine.
The original Y-wing (The BTL-B) features a forward module seating a pilot in the cockpit and a gunner in a bubble turret. An astromech droid (which served as the fighter's navigation system) fits into a dedicated socket behind them.
The E-7 E-wing multi-role starfighter, also called E-wing escort starfighter, was a single-pilot starfighter developed by FreiTek Inc. It was notable for being the first fighter designed entirely under the support of the New Republic. E-wings deployed with updated laser cannons were known as the Type B.
Koensayr (the manufacturer of the Y-Wing), and Incom (manufacturer of the ARC-170, Z-95, and later the X-Wing) both emerged from the Clone Wars with massive manufacturing infrastructure on their hands, as well as substantial unsold stock in parts and partially built Y-Wings and ARC-170s.
