Goodyear Airship N3A and a GTA 6 Vice City Livery

A Goodyear airship registered N3A flew south on 12 October 2026 carrying, according to people who photographed it, Grand Theft Auto VI branding and the words "Vice City" down its side. Two outlets reported it. They do not agree on which Goodyear facility it left from, and one of the two has it landing in North Carolina while the other has it bound for Pompano Beach. What this desk can verify first hand is the aircraft, from the United States federal register, and the disagreement itself. CONFIRMED. The editor fetched https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=3A at HTTP 200 and 31,922 bytes at 2026-10-13T03:23:38Z and re-read it field by field. The aircraft, as the FAA register prints it FieldValue in the FAA record for N3A Serial Number008 StatusValid Manufacturer NameZLT ZEPPELIN LUFTSCHIFFTECHNIK ModelLZ NO7-101 Aircraft TypeBlim/Dirigible Mfr Year2018 Engine Manufacturer and ModelLYCOMING, IO-360-C1G6 Certificate Issue Date08/09/2018 A/W Date08/10/2018 Expiration Date08/31/2028 Mode S Code (Base 16 / Hex)A31AA0 Mode S Code (Base 8 / oct)50615240 Type RegistrationCorporation Fractional OwnerNO NameGOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO Street841 WINGFOOT LAKE RD City, StateMOGADORE, OHIO CountyPORTAGE Zip Code44266 CountryUNITED STATES ClassificationStandard CategoryNormal One transcription detail worth printing. The FAA prints the model as LZ NO7-101 with a letter O. The press prints it with a zero. Both renderings appear in this article's sources and the register's own glyph is the one in the table above. The disagreement, which is the whole of what this article claims The editor re-read both reports. RockstarINTEL, datePublished 2026-10-12T13:55:09+00:00, dateModified 2026-10-12T20:04:28+00:00, verbatim: According to James W. Ward, Wingfoot Three is scheduled to fly from its current location at the Goodyear Airdock in Akron, Ohio to Pompano Beach, Florida. Its photographs are credited "Roger Durfee". GTA BOOM, verbatim: It left its hangar at Wingfoot Lake in Ohio this morning and tracked southeast, while airship watchers who photographed it say it now carries Grand Theft Auto VI branding and the words 'Vice City' down its side. Rockstar Games has said nothing about it but it doesn't have to do. GTA BOOM's own detail table, transcribed verbatim: FieldGTA BOOM's value AircraftWingfoot Three (N3A), a Goodyear Zeppelin NT DepartedWingfoot Lake, Akron/Suffield, Ohio, 8:37 AM EDT, October 12 Headed toSmith Reynolds Airport, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Estimated arrivalAbout 12:58 PM EDT Time in the airRoughly 4 hours 21 minutes DistanceAbout 343 miles Cruising speedAround 66 mph, near the 70 mph these airships top out at GTA BOOM attributes the track to FlightAware. It also states, verbatim: "The exact intermediate stops and the rest of the schedule are not public. Neither Rockstar nor Goodyear has set out an official route." Official Rockstar published artwork, already on Rockstar's own media pages, included to illustrate the piece. It is unrelated to the specific claim in this article, shows no airship and carries none of the registry, flight tracking or livery metadata discussed here. Nobody on this desk has seen the airship. The Airdock and Wingfoot Lake are two different places This is the spine of the article and it is the editor's own point. The Goodyear Airdock in Akron and the Wingfoot Lake facility are two separate Goodyear sites. The FAA register's own registered address for N3A is 841 WINGFOOT LAKE RD, MOGADORE, in PORTAGE county. GTA BOOM's "Akron/Suffield" reading is consistent with that registered address. Akron itself sits in Summit county. Read that carefully, because it is a narrow statement. What the register matches is GTA BOOM's naming of the facility. A registered address is not evidence of where an aircraft physically departed from on a given morning. An airship registered at Wingfoot Lake can sit in the Airdock, and a corporate registration address can be out of date in either direction. This desk is reporting which outlet's facility name agrees with the federal register, and nothing stronger than that. Goodyear itself has published nothing The editor fetched https://news.goodyear.com/news at HTTP 200 and 106,576 bytes at 2026-10-13T03:27:00Z and counted the occurrences of five strings. String searched on Goodyear's own newsroom indexOccurrences vice city0 Vice City0 GTA0 Grand Theft0 Rockstar0 That is a reached page with a measured result. Rockstar has said nothing about the airship either, which GTA BOOM itself states. A live tracking check that returned nothing, and means nothing The editor queried https://api.adsb.lol/v2/registration/N3A at HTTP 200 and 101 bytes at 2026-10-13T03:27:00Z, and the response carries "total": 0. Draw no conclusion from that. It is an empty result and never a denial. 03:27Z is 23:27 the previous evening in Ohio and in Florida, which is when an airship is on the ground and not transmitting from the air. The query is recorded because this desk records what it ran, not because it supports anything. What this desk tried to publish and killed KILLED, AND PRINTED SO NOBODY RE-CHASES IT. Researcher 2 filed that Goodyear's own site says the Carson, California base is "currently Wingfoot Three", and used that to undercut the Miami framing of the story. The editor could not verify it and it is not published. https://www.goodyear.com/en_US/blimp.html serves 578,638 bytes of HTML that yield only 2,524 characters of text and no fleet detail whatever, because the page is a JavaScript shell to a plain fetch. That is a failure to reach, not a finding either way. No claim about which Goodyear ship is based where appears anywhere in this article. Two beats arrived here separately Researcher 3, working community and markets with no contact with researcher 2 on the press beat, independently surfaced the N3A Vice City livery out of the r/GTA6 Atom feed while researcher 2 was reaching it through the outlets. Two separate beats landing on the same story is the strongest sourcing in this batch after the editor's own first hand reads. It corroborates that the claim is circulating and that two independent routes lead to it. It is not a second pair of eyes on the airship. Limits, stated plainly The livery is a relayed claim. The fact is that two outlets reported, on 12 October 2026, that named third parties photographed N3A carrying Grand Theft Auto VI branding and the words "Vice City". Nobody on this desk has seen the airship, in the air or on the ground, and no photograph was authenticated here. The copy is built that way deliberately. Rockstar has said nothing and Goodyear has published nothing. Neither company has confirmed a livery, a route or a campaign, and the zero counts above are what the editor measured on Goodyear's own newsroom index. A scheduled flight plan is not a flown route. RockstarINTEL reports a scheduled flight. GTA BOOM reports a track with an estimated arrival. Neither is a record of where the aircraft actually went, and the two destinations they name are different places. What the two outlets agree on is that the aircraft is N3A and that it flew south on 12 October 2026. What they disagree on is the departure facility. That disagreement, plus the FAA record, is the entirety of this article's claim. A registered address is a registration, not a location. Stated above and repeated here because it is the easiest sentence in this piece to misread. Retrieval method, disclosed. rockstargames.com/robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot by name. Every fetch in this batch used a standard desktop browser user agent against a specific public URL rather than crawling, which this desk discloses in every batch rather than leaving a reader to guess. For the rest of this cycle see the news index.