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The EasyRide passenger airspeeder, also known as the Coruscant taxi or Coruscant air taxi, was an airspeeder used to transport passengers on the most prominent worlds of the galaxy, most notably Coruscant and Malastare.
Characteristics[]

EasyRide schematics.
An air taxi would employ a compact, focused, medium-grade repulsor to elevate it to the very highest skyscraper. A radial battery of low-powered antigravity devices gave it excellent navigational control in open air, allowing it to swoop with accuracy around the tall buildings of the cityworld, and dock skillfully at its destination.
The most common model was the Hyrotii Corporation EasyRide passenger airspeeder. It was eight meters long and was piloted by qualified air taxi pilots, including Republic Judicials such as Rayno Vaca. These pilots were required to pass difficult tests that proved their ability to navigate their craft through the cityscape with skill.
History[]
All important traffic on Coruscant was air traffic, since the original ground levels have been abandoned in the distant past, so the various air taxi-models fit the need for speedy transports that could bypass the skyways of the capital world. Anakin Skywalker and Jar Jar Binks entered one cab during the Naboo Crisis in 32 BBY.
During the Clone Wars, the EasyRide shared the lanes with a similar model of air taxi, the slightly longer ComfortRide.[4]
By 4 ABY, many EasyRides had been put into service by the Galactic Empire as cheap patrol craft on Imperial Center.[5] By 137 ABY, EasyRide airspeeders were still in use on Coruscant.[6]
Appearances[]

An EasyRide on Coruscant
- Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan: Last Stand on Ord Mantell 1
- Star Wars: Obi-Wan
- Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
- Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace 3
- Episode I: Obi-Wan Kenobi (In flashback(s))
- Star Wars (1998) 15
- Star Wars (1998) 16
- Star Wars (1998) 24
- "Almas, Sweet Almas: Desert Cries" – Living Force campaign
- Star Wars: Zam Wesell
Would-Be Saboteur Captured — HoloNet News Vol. 531 #53 (original site is defunct)
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- Republic Commando: Triple Zero
- The Clone Wars: Departure
- Kinect Star Wars
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
- Rebellion 3
- Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (First appearance) (Special Edition)
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Episode I Incredible Cross-Sections
- Star Wars: Episode I Insider's Guide
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 34 TAX 1-2: Coruscant Air Taxi
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 43 TAX 3-4: Coruscant Air Taxi
- Star Wars: Complete Cross-Sections
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Coruscant air taxi in the Databank (original site is defunct)
- Star Wars: Complete Vehicles
Coruscant air taxi in the Encyclopedia (original site is defunct)