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"Are the speeders ready?"
"Not yet. We're having some trouble adapting them to the cold."
―Han Solo and Tigran Jamiro[7]

The T-47 airspeeder, also known as the T-47 light airspeeder, was a craft manufactured by Incom Corporation. They were modified by the Rebel Alliance into snowspeeders.

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"No, no, not the T-47! I can fly anything, but that doesn't mean I want to. Piloting the T-47 is like steering a block of wood."
―Poe Dameron[5]
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Luke salvaging equipment from his crashed snowspeeder on Hoth.

The T-47 airspeeder, also known as the T-47 light airspeeder,[11] was a model of low-altitude vehicle manufactured by Incom Corporation.[1] The vessel was designed for civilian usage and saw use hauling sewage,[8] but they would go onto see service as military craft. All the same, the vessel was not a particularly maneuverable craft, to the extent that Resistance pilot Poe Dameron—despite saying that he could, if needed, fly the ship—compared piloting a T-47 to trying to steer "a block of wood."[5]

A small, wedge-shaped vehicle, the T-47 was a two-person craft crewed by a pilot and a rear-facing tailgunner,[7] with a top speed of 1,100 kph.[6] At least in the case of its modified, military form, it had two forward-facing heavy laser cannons and a harpoon cannon placed in the rear and manned by the tailgunner.[7]

History[]

"Yeah, well, we're not soldiers. Those speeders are for hauling sewage."
―Sully Stark[8]

In 9 BBY,[12] T-47s were used to haul sewage but saw use by the Hidden Path. When Obi-Wan Kenobi and Tala Durith rescued Leia Organa, Sully Stark, and Wade Resselian helped them escape from Fortress Inquisitorius by strafing the stronghold's landing platform in their T-47s. However, Reva Sevander threw an explosive using the Force at Resselian's airspeeder which caused it to explode, killing him.[8]

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A trio of T-47s cripple an Imperial AT-AT on Sullust.

During the Galactic Civil War, the Partisans had access to T-47s during their insurgency on Jedha.[9] During the Battle of Hoth, Rebel Alliance snowspeeders used tow cables to disable All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT) walkers by firing the tow cable and chasing it out around the walker's legs, stopping its locomotion and immobilizing the walker.[2] At some point, three T-47s attacked and crippled an AT-AT on Sullust.[13]

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Behind the scenes[]

The T-47 airspeeder first appeared in the 1980 film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back.[7]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ultimate Star Wars
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 StarWars.com Encyclopedia Snowspeeder in the Encyclopedia (original site is defunct)
  3. ↑ Star Wars Battlefront II
  4. ↑ Starships and Speeders
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Star Wars: The Rebel Files
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi — "Part IV"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Star Wars (2015) 38
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Star Wars Battlefront
  11. ↑ Star Wars: On the Front Lines
  12. ↑ StarWars.com Future Lucasfilm Projects Revealed on StarWars.com (backup link) states that Obi-Wan Kenobi is set ten years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 19 BBY. Therefore, Obi-Wan Kenobi must be set in 9 BBY.
  13. ↑ Star Wars: Legion Rebel Alliance Command Cards (PDF) on Asmodee's official website (backup link)

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