Anakin's Eta-2



During the later part of the Clone Wars Anakin Skywalker piloted a bright yellow Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor.He flew the fighter in many successful space battles, once rescuing Jedi Master Saesee Tiin from pursuing droid tri-fighters. After his knighting,Anakin's wife Padme' Amidala gave him R2-D2 to serve as his astromech droid,but his astromech droid copilot before then is unknown.The fighter was last used in the Second Battle of Coruscant,during which he and his former Master were to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from his "captivity" aboard General Grievous's command ship,the Invisible Hand.Anakin and Obi-Wan synchronously flew their fighters towards the ship,aided by Squadron Seven,which suffered several casualties from pursuing droid tri-fighters.A modified Vulture-class droid starfighter launched two pairs of buzz droid-filled discord missiles, one pair at Anakin and one pair at Kenobi.Anakin tried to lose the missiles by making sharp turns.When this failed he had R2 surge his fighter's power units and then used that surge to boost the engines,at the same time launching his fighter into a barrel roll.The missiles copied the spin,and corkscrewed into each other.Anakin chuckled.Obi- Wan,however,had not been so successful.His ship was covered in buzz droids,and one tore the head of of R4-P17,his astromech droid.Anakin waited for a clear shot and opened fire on the droids.At first he did well,but when he increased his fire rate he also shot off the upper port wing panel. "Hold your fire,you're not helping here!" "I agree,bad idea." Obi-Wan closed the other wing panels to avoid erratic flight.Anakin dodged an ex- plosion,then closed his own wing panels and flew up next to Obi-Wan's fighter.He then crushed all but one of the remaining buzz droids with his starboard wingtip.The last one hopped aboard his own fighter and challenged R2-D2,who shortly,on Obi-Wan's di- rection,zapped it in the center eye,disabling it.It then slid off the fighter.Soon the General's command ship was dead ahead.When Obi-Wan pointed out that the shields were still up,Anakin flipped over Kenobi's fighter and used his side cannons to blast the shield generator to smithereens.The pair flew their fighters into the hangar. Anakin's skidded through several OOM security droids before it stopped and he extended the landing gear.Because the stern of the Invisible Hand broke away the fighter was lost.

Since the fighter belonged to Anakin Skywalker,it was probably customized with features such as an onboard hyperdrive,though this is never shown.

Sources:
Clone Wars: Chapter 21 Clone Wars: Chapter 22 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith