Shamal

The Shamal appears in a screenshot on the Vice City portion of GTA VI’s promotional website. It is flying above the Vice City sign at Vice City International Airport, placing the aircraft in the Vice City region.

This is the specifically documented GTA VI showing. No timestamped trailer appearance, mission role, purchasable listing, livery selection, interior, or handling information has been identified for the new game.

The San Andreas Shamal appears to draw chiefly from the Learjet 55. Its nose is much longer than that of many Learjets, however, and resembles later Learjet forms. The left-side door with its built-in stairway, winglets, and T-tail follow a conventional light-jet layout.

GTA V’s version uses the Learjet 45 as its main reference. Its cockpit also takes cues from the Embraer ERJ 145 and the Cessna CitationJet. The GTA VI image does not establish which of these design influences, if any, defines its new-game model.

In San Andreas, the aircraft was finished only in a pale grey resembling the Hydra’s colour. Although Freefall exposed an interior that looked unusually roomy for the fuselage, it had contradictions: there were 16 cabin windows inside—nine left and seven right—while only eight were modelled externally. It also carried only the player despite its apparent passenger accommodation.

A Shamal could be taken from Los Santos International Airport at the start of the game by getting past the security booth, even before the pilot licence. It was also central to Freefall, in which Carl Johnson hijacks one from a Dodo, and to Saint Mark’s Bistro, where it transports him to Liberty City and back. Its two turbofans use the engine audio shared by most jet aircraft.

The GTA V and Online airframe gained extra main-gear wheels, taxi lights, eight windows on each side, and a fully modelled cabin with brown-and-tan leather seating. It is classified under Planes in GTA V and Online. Airline operators use an Ice White base with MyFly, Air Emu, Air Herler, or FlyUS striping across the fuselage, winglets, engines, and tail. Red-outlined windows mark emergency cut-out areas.

The Luxor is a black-painted Shamal derivative assigned the private-jet role. By contrast, the standard Shamal is used for regional airline service. In Caida Libre, an Air Emu example is badly damaged after its crash near the Senora Freeway: its door is missing, the right wing is damaged, and much of the left engine is exposed. Legal Trouble supplies one as a getaway aircraft.

GTA V and Online list the Shamal through Elitás Travel for $1,150,000. Online deliveries are handled by Pegasus Lifestyle Management; in the enhanced edition, a Hangar stores it as a Medium aircraft. A personal Online Shamal can use the four airline livery sets, but its underlying colour cannot be changed.

Online seating allows ten occupants including the pilot, while single-player use permits only two. If all three protagonists try to board, the third remains outside. Trevor cannot buy one because his hangar cannot accommodate it. The right main landing gear has an inverted headlight texture, leaving that lamp without its visible texture even though the light effect still functions. After Hours temporarily removed every livery except MyFly in the enhanced version; Arena War restored the missing schemes.