Pilot droid/Legends

"Flying is for droids."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

Pilot droids were droids used to pilot capital ships and light freighters. Unlike astromech droids, which were mostly concerned with repair and hyperspace navigation for ships without navigation computers, pilot droids were used primarily to fly vessels in normal space.

During the Clone Wars, the Confederacy of Independent Systems made extensive use of pilot battle droids originally developed by the Trade Federation. In addition to flying spacecraft, some of these pilot droids were used as part of CIS boarding parties or to pilot ground vehicles.

Later, both the Galactic Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic used pilot droids. Unlike the pilot droids of the Clone Wars, these droids were unarmed and not designed for combat operations. The Alliance found them too expensive to purchase, though they gladly accepted donated droids or droids stolen from the Empire. B1 droid pilots were kept in production for years to come as well due to their low price, reliability and small size.

Pilot droid models

 * OOM pilot battle droid, used by the Trade Federation and Confederacy of Independent Systems.
 * FA-4 pilot droid, luxury pilot droid operating during the time of the Clone Wars.
 * FA-5 pilot droid, the successor to the FA-4.
 * RX pilot droid, used by the Star Tours travel agency
 * V1-series pilot droid, used by Imperial forces, Rebels, and civilians.
 * V6-series pilot droid, successor to the V1-series.
 * Class Five pilot droid.

Individual pilot droids

 * Unnamed FA-4, pilot of Dooku's Punworcca-116 interstellar sloop
 * PD-28, former servant of Dr. Raygar
 * RX-24, pilot for Star Tours
 * LE-BO2D9, Dash Rendar's co-pilot

Behind the scenes
In Star Wars: Battlefront, the OOM pilot droid is shown as a OOM-series battle droid with no markings, while the Demolitions battle droid is shown as a pilot with blue markings. In Star Wars: Battlefront II Pilot Droids could only be used in Space Battles.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Dark Times 5: The Path to Nowhere, Part 5
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
 * Star Tours
 * Star Tours