A-1 Deluxe Floater

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The A-1 Deluxe Floater, also known simply as the A-1 landspeeder, was a cheap, basic landspeeder, that featured automated steering and fine Corellian leather. It was first produced by Mobquet Swoops and Speeders in the months prior to the Clone Wars.^[1]

Characteristics[]

The Mobquet A-1 Deluxe floater was a capsule-shaped, yellow-hulled landspeeder with a pod-like cockpit seating a pilot and passenger in single file. The speeder's six external RS-J24 thruster engine modules propelled the A-1 at speeds of around 160 kilometers per hour. A series of inlet ports on the rounded nose drew in air to cool the engines, but the A-1 suffered from insulation problems, noise pollution and the risk of exterior odors filtering into the cockpit.

The 7.1-meter-long Deluxe floater was affordable at 6,500 credits, but lacked any kind of amenities and was considered to be a very basic speeder—though perfect for Outer Rim Territories worlds or the youthful speeder customization crowd in the Core.

History[]

More than one of these vehicles could be found in Mos Eisley in 0 BBY, including one parked outside the cantina while Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker first met Han Solo.^[3] There was another for sale at Spaceport Speeders^[4] when Skywalker sold his X-34 landspeeder there.^[3]

Lady Valles Santhe used this model of landspeeder as her personal transport on Lianna.^[5]

Behind the scenes[]

A-1 Deluxe Floater at Spaceport Speeders — An A-1 (left) at Spaceport Speeders

This vehicle could first be partially seen briefly in the background of Mos Eisley in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.^[3] Full blueprints for the prop, labeled "Mobquet Landspeeder," were published in Star Wars Blueprints in 1977.^[6]

An all-new image of the speeder in Mos Eisley was featured in the A New Hope Limited set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game in 1996.^[7] A more prominent digital version of the speeder, very similar to the card game version, was added to the Special Edition of the film in 1997.^[3]