88th Flight

88th Flight
General information
Formation type	Flight
Organizational information
Vehicles	Vulture-class droid starfighters
Location(s)	Skytop Station
Historical information
Notable battles	Mission to Skytop Station
Other information
Affiliation	Confederacy of Independent Systems Confederacy of Independent Systems Navy

The 88th Flight was a starfighter flight that served within the naval forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars against the Galactic Republic. The flight consisted of at least three Vulture-class droid starfighters and was stationed aboard Skytop Station on the second moon of the planet Ruusan, where they engaged Republic forces that boarded the station to rescue the astromech droid R2-D2 in 22 BBY.

The three Vulture droids were destroyed during the Republic mission; Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano mounted one in a station's hangar, causing a second to fire upon it before Tano mounted the second and decapitated it. The third was destroyed when a fuel canister was thrown by Tano's Jedi Master, Anakin Skywalker, with the Force and Clone Captain Rex firing on it, exploding and eliminating the remaining Separatist forces.

Behind the scenes

The 88th Flight made its first appearance, although only in the episode's opening newsreel, in "Ambush," the first episode of the first season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series, which aired on October 3, 2008. It later made its full appearance in "Duel of the Droids," the first season's seventh episode, which aired on November 14, 2008.

The flight was first identified in the fifty-sixth issue of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine, published around January 27, 2016. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the 88th Flight was originally identified in the 88th Flight Droid fighter card of the Clone Wars expansion pack released as part of Topps' Star Wars PocketModel TCG trading card game on July 26, 2008.

Appearances

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Ambush" (First appearance) (In flashback(s))
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Duel of the Droids"

Sources

• The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Duel of the Droids on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link) (Picture only)
• "Duel of the Droids" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
• Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 56 (Starship Fact File: Skytop Station Battlesphere) (First identified as 88th Flight)