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''For the Police Helicopters in [[Grand Theft Auto III|GTA III]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars|GTA Chinatown Wars]], see [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)]] and [[Helicopter (GTA CW)]] respectively.''
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{{disambiglink|For other Police Helicopters, see [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)]].<br>For the Air Ambulance in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]] see [[Air Ambulance]].}}
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{{Infobox vehicle
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|name = Police Maverick
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|aka =
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*VCPD Maverick <small>(''GTA Vice City Stories'')</small>
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*Polmav <small>(''GTA Chinatown Wars'')</small>
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*Helicopter <small>(NPC variants in ''GTA Vice City'' & ''GTA Liberty City Stories'') <sup>{{H:title|Leftovers from the Helicopter in GTA III|(?)}}</sup></small> <ref name="AMERICAN.GXT/ENGLISH.GXT - GTA III/GTA Vice City"></ref><ref name="AMERICAN.GXT/ENGLISH.GXT - GTA Liberty City Stories/GTA Vice City Stories"></ref>
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*Ghetto bird <small>(by [[Sweet Johnson|Sweet]])</small>
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|front_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-front.png
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|rear_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-rear.png
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|caption = A '''Police Maverick''' in ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]''.
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|front_image2 = PoliceMaverick-GTAVI-Trailer1.png
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|rear_image2 =
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|caption2 = A '''Police Maverick''' in the [[Grand Theft Auto VI/Trailers|first trailer]] of ''[[Grand Theft Auto VI]]''.
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|class = [[:Category:Helicopters class in GTA V|Helicopters]] <small>(''GTA V'' and ''GTA Online'')</small>
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|type = [[:Category:Law enforcement aircraft|Law enforcement vehicle]]
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|body_style = Police helicopter
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|capacity =
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*4 <small>(pilot and three passengers) (all games)</small>
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*6 <small>(pilot and five passengers) (police rappeling sequence, ''GTA V'')</small>
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|manufacturer =
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*[[Western Company]] <small>(''GTA IV'')</small>
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*[[Buckingham]] <small>(''GTA V'')</small>
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|games = {{games|VC=y|SA=y|LCS={{UN|gamefileonly=1}}|VCS=y|IV=y|TLAD=y|TBOGT=y|CW={{H:title|Uncontrollable|<small>(U)</small>}}|V=y|O=y|VI=y}}
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|basevariant = [[Maverick]]
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|makeyear =
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|swankness = 4/5 <small>(''GTA IV'' & ''GTA V'')</small>
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|dashtype = Maverick <small>(needle)</small><br>[[File:Aircraft-Dials-GTAV.png|thumb|center|170px]]Flyer <small>(dial texture)</small><br>[[File:Flyer-GTAV-DialSet.png|thumb|center|170px]]
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|inttxd =
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*Generic <small>(3D Universe)</small>
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*Maverick <small>(''GTA IV'')</small>
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*Flyer <small>(''GTA V'')</small>
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|carcols = <!--entirely textured in Liberty City Stories-->
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{{Expand|'''GTA Vice City'''|
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{{CarColVC/Title}}
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{{CarColVC|no=1|46|1}}<br>
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}}
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----
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{{Expand|'''GTA San Andreas'''|
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{{CarColSA/Title}}
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{{CarColSA|no=1|0|1}}<br>
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}}
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----
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{{Expand|'''GTA Vice City Stories'''|
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{{CarColVCS/Title}}
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{{CarColVCS|no=1|46|1}}<br>
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}}
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{{Expand|'''GTA IV'''|
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{{CarColIV/Title}}
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{{CarColIV|no=1|113|74|113}}<br>
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}}
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{{Expand|'''GTA V'''|
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{{CarColV/Title}}
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{{CarColV|no=1|134|0|112|156}}
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}}
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|wheeltype = Sport
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|flags =
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{{Expand|'''GTA IV'''|
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{{Flags|FLAG_NO_BOOT}}<br>
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}}
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{{Expand|'''GTA V'''|
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{{Expand|Police Maverick|
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{{Flags|FLAG_NO_BOOT}}<br>
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{{Flags|FLAG_HAS_LIVERY}}<br>
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{{Flags|FLAG_LAW_ENFORCEMENT}}<br>
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{{Flags|FLAG_DRIVER_NO_DRIVE_BY}}<br>
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{{Flags|FLAG_NO_RESPRAY}}<br>
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{{Flags|FLAG_ALLOWS_RAPPEL}}<br>
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{{Flags|FLAG_DONT_SPAWN_IN_CARGEN}}<br>
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{{Flags|FLAG_HEADLIGHTS_USE_ACTUAL_BONE_POS}}<br>
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{{Flags|FLAG_DONT_SPAWN_AS_AMBIENT}}<br>
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{{Flags|FLAG_BLOCK_FROM_ATTRACTOR_SCENARIO}}<br>
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{{Flags|FLAG_DONT_TIMESLICE_WHEELS}}<br>
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}}
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{{Expand|Searchlight|
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{{Flags|OnlyFireOneShotPerTriggerPress}}<br>
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{{Flags|Vehicle}}<br>
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}}}}
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|modelsets =
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*POLICE_HELI
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*[[Police Maverick#Air Ambulance|AMBULANCE_HELI]]
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|modelname = polmav <small>(all games)</small>
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|handlingname = POLMAV <small>(all games)</small>
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|textlabelname = POLMAV <small>(all games)</small>
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|roadspawn =
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*{{H:title|Only spawns in the air if the player has a wanted level of at least 3 stars|Conditional}} <small>(all games)</small>
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*Parked <small>(''GTA Vice City'', ''GTA Vice City Stories'', ''TBoGT'' - multiplayer only, ''GTA V'')</small>
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*{{H:title|It only appears parked after passing Learning to Fly|Conditionally parked}} <small>(''GTA San Andreas'')</small>
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|roadspawnmaxcol = 10
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|roadspawnfreq = 100 <small>(''GTA IV'' & ''GTA V'')</small>
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|roadspawntrailer = <!--null-->
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|roadspawnidendis = 20
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|roadspawndrivers = S_M_Y_SWAT_01
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|roadspawngroups = <!--null-->
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|roadspawnlicense = <!--null-->
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|genpreced =
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|gensucced =
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}}
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The '''Police Maverick''' (also known as the '''VCPD Maverick''') appearing in every game since ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]'', and due to appear in ''[[Grand Theft Auto VI]]''.
   
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It is manufactured by [[Western Company]] in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' and [[Buckingham]] in ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]''.
{{Infobox vehicles
 
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| name = Police Maverick
 
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==Description==
| front_image = 6ZT uj037Mw.jpg
 
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The Police Maverick flown by the police possesses many characteristics of the [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)|preceding Police Helicopter]] in ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]''. All versions of the vehicle are used by the police forces of the city during [[Wanted Level]]s, from three stars and above.
| image_size = 300
 
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| caption = The Police Maverick in [[Grand Theft Auto V|GTA V]]
 
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==Design==
| manufacturer = [[Western Company]]
 
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In all of its appearances, the Police Maverick is a police adaptation of the civilian [[Maverick]] [[helicopter]] (excluding ''GTA V''), usually seen operated by and deploying [[Special Weapons and Tactics|SWAT]] ([[3D Universe]]) or [[National Office of Security Enforcement|NOOSE]] ([[HD Universe]]) units.
| vehicle_type = Law Enforcement Vehicle
 
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| body_style = 4 doors Police Helicopter
 
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===3D Universe===
| capacity = 4 (Driver and 3 passengers)
 
| appearances = [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City|GTA Vice City]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|GTA San Andreas]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories|GTA Liberty City Stories (cheat devices or a gamesave)]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories|GTA Vice City Stories]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto IV|GTA IV]]<br>[[Grand Theft Auto V]]
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In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]]'', the helicopter is used by the [[Vice City Police Department (3D Universe)|VCPD]], having either a green primary color and white secondary color (''GTA Vice City'') or an olive/gold primary color and white secondary color (''GTA Vice City Stories''), with the "POLICE" text on the underside.
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In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', the Maverick is used by the [[San Andreas Police Department (3D Universe)|SAPD]] and is operated in all of the three main cities. Apart from the different registration numbers on the tail boom and the black primary color and white secondary color, the Police Maverick remains unchanged from its previous game.
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The Police Maverick exists in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]'', although it does not spawn normally as other renditions. It has the same details as the previous versions, except for a blue primary color and white secondary color, and the [[Liberty City Police Department (3D Universe)|LCPD]] markings.
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The Police Maverick flown by the police has no height limit and can go through buildings, without a chance of crashing either. In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]'', the uncontrollable Police Maverick piloted by cops still has the handling and other characteristics from the uncontrollable helicopter in ''GTA III'', although it uses the polygon model from the Police Maverick available to the player. Excluding ''GTA San Andreas'' and ''GTA Vice City Stories'', pressing the vehicle enter button has no effect for police-flown Police Mavericks. In ''GTA III'' and ''GTA Liberty City Stories'', to ensure the player is not going to obtain one, police-flown helicopters blow up upon contact with the player. The helicopter has an "invisible" 5.56mm machine gun on the fuselage (sounding like an [[M-60]], but with much less power), as well as a searchlight, and a loudspeaker (used by the Police to address the player from the skies), which is only absent in the ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]]'' rendition. Unlike its ''GTA III'' counterpart, the Police Maverick can airdrop [[Special Weapons and Tactics|SWAT]] units on ropes at four star wanted levels. A functional searchlight is also available on the ''GTA San Andreas'' rendition.
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In ''GTA Vice City'', ''GTA San Andreas'' and ''GTA Liberty City Stories'', the inside cabin is empty and there is no visible NPC flying the Police Maverick when it is flown by police. In ''GTA Vice City Stories'', however, the VCPD Maverick has a pilot appearing as a normal Police Officer without any pilot gear, and upon the destruction of the chopper, the pilot will drop a [[Pistol]] and a [[Nightstick]].
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===''Grand Theft Auto IV''===
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The Police Maverick in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' and its [[Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City|episodes]] remains as an adaptation of the regular Maverick, with its design also based on that of the Bell 206. The livery is loosely based on those used on a previous generation of {{URL|http://i.huffpost.com/gen/249752/thumbs/r-NYPD-HELICOPTER-large570.jpg|New York City Police helicopters}}, but with a reversed color scheme. The Police Maverick has a searchlight on the nose and, unlike its civilian or [[Helitours Maverick|Helitours]] counterpart, features sidesteps on the rear bay doors. Color distribution is different to that of the regular Maverick, appearing in a white primary color for most of the fuselage and tail boom, and a secondary color for the engine compartment, part of the tail boom, and in the form of thin stripes passing on the sides. It also bears the [[Liberty City Police Department (HD Universe)|LCPD]] markings, with "POLICE" text on the nose and tail boom.
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Replacing the original "invisible" machine gun under the fuselage, there are two Police Officers seated on both sides of the helicopter, programmed to shoot the player with [[Carbine Rifle]]s (or [[Combat MG|Advanced MGs]] in ''[[The Ballad of Gay Tony]]''), with [[National Office of Security Enforcement|NOOSE]] agents replacing police officers in Mavericks at four stars (provided that the [[Federal Investigation Bureau|FIB]] does not respond). The ability to deploy units has been removed from the game and, unlike in the [[3D Universe]], it may be replaced by the [[Annihilator]] from higher [[Wanted Level in GTA IV|wanted levels]], from five stars and above.
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===''Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars''===
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The Police Maverick has the same design as the ''GTA IV'' rendition, except that it is uncontrollable and uses a more traditional livery, being a thin blue stripe on the lower side and the "POLICE" text below the front door windows. It also has the same machine gun mounted as in the 3D Universe games, unlike ''GTA IV''. It is obtainable through a secret method in the mission [[Payback (GTA Chinatown Wars)|Payback]].
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===''Grand Theft Auto V'' and ''Online''===
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In ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto Online]]'', the Police Maverick has been redesigned with a modern appearance, based on the French {{WP|Eurocopter AS350|Eurocopter AS350B}}. The livery is based on the design of the one used on the {{URL|https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Airbus_H125_-_Los_Angeles_Police_Department_Air_Support_%28cropped%29.jpg|Los Angeles Police helicopters}}.
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The aircraft assumes a completely different design and is no longer based on the regular Maverick, although given its name, it is implied to be a newer generation of the aforementioned vehicle (something seen with multiple vehicles in the same game). The front section is rather triangular in shape and is predominated by large windows, along with two access doors on the sides and a searchlight/camera below, similarly to the [[Frogger]], [[Annihilator]], [[Maverick]], [[Buzzard]] and [[Buzzard Attack Chopper]]. Similar to the aforementioned aircraft, only NPC-operated Police Mavericks can use the searchlight, and players that sit on the copilot seat can use the camera to look around and tag other players.
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The main section has a large bay with sliding doors that are always open, small side steps for access, and long skids on the underside, while the upper area has a tall engine compartment with two large exhausts, a three-bladed main rotor and two mounted winches, which can be used by either NOOSE officers or other players in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Online]]''. The tail boom is relatively long and features a strike guard below, large vertical stabilizers and small horizontal stabilizers, as well as a two-bladed tail rotor on the left.
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The interior of the aircraft is similar than that of the Maverick, being a large flight instrument panel in the center. In the enhanced version, it uses the "Flyer" dial set that is also used on the Maverick and the Buzzard.
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The aircraft is only available in a white primary color with a black livery texture on the front section and tail boom, along with [[Los Santos Police Department (HD Universe)|LSPD]] markings on the sides and below the aircraft, with the LSPD emblem partially seen behind the sliding doors.
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According to its functionality and the pilot during the mission [[Eye in the Sky]], the mounted camera allows the user to identify individuals by reading RFID transmitters placed in [[2012]] San Andreas driver licenses. It is marked with the zoom bar, the direction, the height, and the LSPD name marked in a corner. It can activate a microphone to hear distant conversations and is implemented with thermal vision (much like [[Sniper Rifles]] in missions). The limitations of the device include a signal lost when the objective is hiding behind a solid structure unless thermal vision is used. In the enhanced version of ''[[Grand Theft Auto Online]]'', some missions require the player to scan license plates of vehicles.
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{{Clr}}
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===Current Design Gallery===
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{{Current Design Gallery
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|front_quarter_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-FrontQuarter.png
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|top_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Top.png
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|rear_quarter_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-RearQuarter.png
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|front_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Front.png
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|side_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Side.png
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|rear_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Rear.png
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|engine_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Engine.png
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|underside_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Underside.png
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|inside_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Inside.png
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|detail_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Liveries.gif
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|open_other_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Other.png
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|dashboard_image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Dashboard.png
 
}}
 
}}
   
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===Version History Gallery===
The '''Police Maverick''', also known as the '''VCPD Maverick''' in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]], is the Police adaptation of the civilian [[Maverick]] [[helicopter]], and the first controllable Police Helicopter introduced in series when it debuted in Grand Theft Auto : Vice City.
 
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{{Vehicle Design History Gallery
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|GTAVC_Front_imagename = PoliceMaverick-GTAVC-front.jpg
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|GTAVC_Rear_imagename = PoliceMaverick-GTAVC-rear.jpg
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|GTASA_Front_imagename = PoliceMaverick-GTASA-front.jpg
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|GTASA_Rear_imagename = PoliceMaverick-GTASA-RearQuarter.jpg
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|GTALCS_Front_imagename = PoliceMaverick-GTALCS-FrontView.png
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|GTALCS_Rear_imagename = PoliceMaverick-GTALCS-RearQuarter.png
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|GTAVCS_Front_imagename = VCPDMaverick-GTAVCS-front.jpg
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|GTAVCS_Rear_imagename = VCPDMaverick-GTAVCS-rearquarter.jpg
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|GTAIV_Front_imagename = PoliceMaverick-GTAIV-front.png
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|GTAIV_Rear_imagename = PoliceMaverick-GTAIV-rear.png
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|GTACW_Front_imagename = PoliceMaverick-GTACW-front.png
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|GTACW_Rear_imagename = PoliceMaverick-GTACW-rear.png
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}}
   
== Description ==
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==Performance==
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===3D Universe===
[[File:1692_gtasa_chopper.jpg|thumb|Illustration of the Police Maverick in the GTA San Andreas boxart.]]
 
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The Police Maverick flyable by the player controls similarly to a normal Maverick, differing only by its ability to pitch steeper than a regular Maverick (especially in games prior to ''GTA IV''), due to the slightly decreased mass (4,500kg vs 5,000kg of the normal Maverick). The Police Maverick has a slight better top speed and handling, given its usage as a police vehicle. While it does not have weapons or an average resistance, the Police Maverick is still a good choice for flying around the city.
The Police Maverick possess many characteristics of the [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)|preceeding Police Helicopter]] in [[Grand Theft Auto III]]. When flown by Police Units once the player obtains a 3 stars wanted level, the helicopter has an "invisible" 5.56mm machine gun on the fuselage (similar in both sound and power to the [[M-60]]), as well as a searchlight, and a loud speaker (used by the Police to address the player from the skies) only absent in the GTA Vice City Stories rendition. The helicopter can also airdrop [[SWAT]] units on ropes in [[GTA III Era]] games starting with Vice City onward. In the GTA III Era games, (GTA III, GTA Vice City and GTA Liberty City Stories) the Police Maverick flown by the Police is actually a mesh - it's not solid and can go through buildings, without a chance of crashing either. If you were to press the enter vehicle button near it, the player would not try to get in the helicopter, therefore it is not proper as it cannot be obtained in any way. In GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories, the helicopters blow up upon contact with the player, this is possibly to stop players from riding it, or just trying to obtain it, but that is unlikely as there is no animation for the door opening.
 
   
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====3D Universe Overview====
The Police Maverick controls similarly to a normal Maverick, differing only by its ability to pitch steeper than a regular Maverick (especially in games prior to GTA IV). In addition, Police Mavericks obtainable by the player will have no microphone or machine gun fire. A search light is also available on the GTA San Andreas rendition (see [[#Trivia]]).
 
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{{Aircraftstats-3d
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|handling_top_speed = 124 / 200 / 108
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|handling_engine = Petrol
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|handling_mass = 4500 / 9921
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|observed_acceleration =
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|observed_top_speed =
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|observed_engine = Single turboshaft engine, two-bladed rotor
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|observed_engine_location = Middle/Rear
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}}
   
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===''Grand Theft Auto IV''===
=== GTA Vice City — GTA Vice City Stories ===
 
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The Police Maverick appears to have a similar performance to its civilian counterpart, being easy to control, useful for navigating through the city. Its single {{WP|turboshaft}} engine provides good power output for its blades, allowing for controllable movements, at the cost of being rather slow compared to the powerplant of the [[Annihilator]] or the small size of the [[Buzzard Attack Chopper|Buzzard]]. In other words, the Police Maverick performs averagely, just like the standard version.
Like the Maverick, the helicopter has made repeated appearances in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]], [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]], [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]].
 
[[File:GTAVC_-_Police_Maverick,NPC_variant_.jpg|thumb|260px|Two police Mavericks in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]
 
In GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas and GTA Vice City Stories, the helicopter is usually always parked on the roof of the main police station of the city. In GTA Liberty City Stories, it is also not available in a normal game, but can be obtained by a third party trainer program. Like the Maverick, the Police Maverick originally featured two rotor blades instead of four.
 
   
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Because of the rather exposed cockpit, the front occupants may get shot from enemies in tall places or armed with assault rifles, considering the lower windows may be a weak spot for them when flying above these.
With the exception of GTA San Andreas, two versions of the Police Maverick exist in all its appearances between GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories. Airborne Police Mavericks operated by the Police feature its back doors slide back, but the same back doors of Police Mavericks available to the player swing open instead. In GTA Vice City Stories, the slide-door variant retains GTA Vice City's green and white livery while the swing-door variant is only available in a olive/gold and white livery. The slide-door variant is not normally available to the player, but it is possible to [[Helicopter (GTA LCS)|spawn a slide-door Maverick in these games]] using trainers/cheat devices.
 
   
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====''GTA IV'' Overview====
In GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas and GTA Liberty City Stories, there is no visible Pilot flying the helicopter when it is flown by an NPC. This visual goof was rectified in GTA Liberty City Stories by simply having the windows of the helicopter blackened, obscuring the interior ; Police Mavericks spawned using a cheat device, however, feature transparent windows. In GTA Vice City Stories, there is a pilot appearing as a normal Police Officer without any Pilot Gear.
 
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{{Aircraftstats-gtaiv
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|handling_top_speed = 99 / 160 / 86
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|handling_mass = 4500 / 9921
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|website_acceleration =
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|website_top_speed =
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|website_engine =
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|website_mass =
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|observed_acceleration =
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|observed_top_speed =
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|observed_engine = Single turboshaft engine, four-bladed rotor
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|observed_engine_location = Middle/Rear
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}}
   
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===''Grand Theft Auto V'' and ''Online''===
Once the player has destroyed a VCPD Maverick in GTA Vice City Stories, it drops a [[Pistol]] and a [[Nightstick]].
 
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{{Stub}}
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The Police Maverick has mediocre performance compared to other helicopters. However, as a freely available helicopter, it can be used for quick extractions or escapes. The aircraft is fairly maneuverable and has a descent airspeed. However, the Police Maverick's speed falls short of luxury helicopters such as the [[Swift]] or attack helicopters like the [[FH-1 Hunter]]. Its climbing rate remains average for a transport helicopter and has an average weight.
   
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The helicopter is unarmored and only two shots from the [[Heavy Sniper]] will be enough to damage the engine, although it can fly for a little over two minutes before the engine completely fails. Just like every other unarmored helicopter, the Police Maverick will be destroyed in only one hit from a standard explosive. Against the [[Heavy Sniper Mk II]] equipped with explosive rounds, the helicopter will only take two to three hits. Because of its decent maneuverability, the Police Maverick is able to avoid standard homing missiles but, just like all helicopters without countermeasures, fails to avoid missiles with better tracking fired from the vehicles such as the: [[Deluxo]], [[Oppressor Mk II]], or [[Ruiner 2000]]. Due to the open cockpit, the front occupants are very exposed to gunfire. The tail of the helicopter can be shot to destroy it more quickly.
{| align="center"
 
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|<gallery width="auto" perrow="3" style="font-size:95%; padding:0;" widths="180">
 
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====''GTA V'' and ''Online'' Overview====
PoliceMaverick-GTAVC-front.jpg|GTA Vice City.
 
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<tabber>
Police Maverick-GTAVC-NPC.jpg|GTA Vice City, NPC variant with slide-doors.
 
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Police Maverick=
PoliceMaverick-GTASA-front.jpg|GTA San Andreas.
 
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{{Aircraftstats-gtav
PoliceMaverick-GTASA-Beta.jpg|[[Beta Releases|Beta]] Police Maverick in a pre-release screenshot of [[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas|GTA San Andreas]].
 
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|&online = y
PoliceMaverick-GTALCS-front.jpg|GTA Liberty City Stories, available only through cheat devices.
 
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|handling_top_speed = 99 / 160 / 86
VCPDMaverick-GTAVCS-front.jpg|GTA Vice City Stories, as a "VCPD Maverick".
 
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|handling_mass = 6500 / 14330
Policebetamav.jpg|GTA Vice City Stories, slide-door variant available only through cheat devices.
 
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|handling_fuel_tank = 100
gta lcs.jpg|GTA Liberty City Stories screenshot of an unobtainable NPC variant
 
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|website_acceleration =
Pol mav GTA V.png|The Beta Police Maverick from [[Grand Theft Auto V]] with LSPD markings
 
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|website_top_speed =
6ZT uj037Mw.jpg|A Police Helicopter in a GTA V screenshot
 
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|website_engine =
85_m.jpg|A GTA V Police Maverick, backside view, seen in the second trailer.
 
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|website_mass =
Police Maverick.jpg|Maverick in GTA IV
 
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|observed_acceleration =
IOSnpcheli.jpg|Slide door variant being flown on an iPad.
 
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|observed_top_speed =
police maverick chase in san andreas.jpg|A police maverick chasing you in a dinghy in GTA: San Andreas
 
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|observed_vertical_rate =
takedown.jpg|Taking down a Police Maverick into the sea.
 
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|observed_engine = Single turboshaft engine, three-bladed rotor
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==Rockstar Games Social Club==
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===''Grand Theft Auto V'' and ''Online''===
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{{RSSC
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|type = heli
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|name = Police Maverick
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|manufacturer = Buckingham
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|class = Helicopters
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|image = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-RGSC-MainNew.jpg
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|caption = Main image (after 2019).
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|image2 = PoliceMaverick-GTAV-RGSC-Action.jpg
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|caption2 = "Action" image for ''GTA V''.
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|image3 = PoliceMaverick-GTAO-RGSC-Action.jpg
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|caption3 = "Action" image for ''GTA Online''.
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|caption4 = Main image (prior to 2019).
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|agility = 95.57692
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|seats = 4
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==Gallery==
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===3D Universe===
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====''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City''====
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<gallery position="center" spacing="small">
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PoliceMaverick-GTAVC-Beta.jpg|A Beta Police Maverick from one of the early screenshots of ''GTA Vice City''.
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
|}
 
   
=== GTA IV ===
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====''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas''====
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<gallery position="center" spacing="small">
[[Image:PoliceMaverick-GTA4-front.jpg|thumb|325px|An [[LCPD in GTA IV Era|LCPD]] Police Maverick in GTA IV, with two Police Officers armed with M4 Carbine Rifles seated on both sides of the Police Maverick ready to take aim at the player.]]
 
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Artwork-LSPDHelicopter-GTASA.jpg|Illustration of the Police Maverick on the ''GTA San Andreas'' boxart.
The Police Maverick is in turn based on a redone Maverick, and as a result, features a rear slid-doors and a four-blade main rotor. In place of an "invisible" machine gun under the fuselage are two Police Officers seated on both sides of the helicopter, programmed to shoot the player with [[M16|M4 Carbines]] Rifles ; its ability to deploy NOOSE Tactical Response Unit Officers has also been dropped in the game. In [[The Ballad Of Gay Tony]], the Police Officers will be armed with [[M249|Advanced MGs]] (M249 SAWs) instead.
 
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PoliceMaverick-GTASA-Beta.jpg|[[Beta Releases|Beta]] Police Maverick in a pre-release screenshot of ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|GTA San Andreas]]'', showing a beta version of [[Are You Going to San Fierro?]]
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PoliceMaverick-GTASA-Beta-2.jpg|Another beta version of the Police Maverick, note the [[Los Santos Police Department (3D Universe)|LSPD]] markings.
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PoliceMaverick-GTASA-Chase.jpg|A Police Maverick and a [[VCN Maverick|News Chopper]] chasing the player in a [[Dinghy]].
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PoliceMaverick-GTASA-Takedown.jpg|Taking down a Police Maverick into the sea.
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</gallery>
   
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===HD Universe===
The Police Maverick is slightly faster than a regular Maverick and can turn faster, thus giving it more maneuverability. Its design is based on that of the [[Wikipedia:Bell 206| Bell 206]].
 
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====''Grand Theft Auto IV''====
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<gallery position="center" spacing="small">
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PoliceMaverick-GTAIV.jpg|Another view of the Police Maverick in ''GTA IV''.
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PoliceMaverick-GTA4-front.jpg|A Police Maverick with [[Liberty City Police Department (HD Universe)|LCPD officers]] inside.
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</gallery>
   
=== GTA V ===
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====''Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars''====
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<gallery position="center" spacing="small">
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PoliceMaverick-GTACW-UniqueVehicle.jpg|Police Maverick in the [[Android OS]] port of ''GTA Chinatown Wars''.
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PoliceMaverick-GTACW-IOS.jpg|Police Maverick in the [[Apple iOS]] port of ''GTA Chinatown Wars''.
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</gallery>
   
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====''Grand Theft Auto V''====
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<gallery position="center" spacing="small">
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PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Beta.jpg|The beta Police Maverick in the first trailer of ''GTA V''.
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GTAV-Screenshot1.jpg|A Police Maverick flying over [[Los Santos (HD Universe)|Los Santos]] in a screenshot of'' GTA V''.
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GTAV-Screenshot11.jpg|A Police Maverick and a [[Police Cruiser|police cars]] chasing an [[Infernus]]. Note the red laser from the helicopter.
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GTAV-Screenshot23.jpg|A Police Maverick chasing a lime-green Infernus in [[Vinewood Hills]].
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GTAV-Screenshot12.jpg|[[Trevor Philips]] aiming at a Police Maverick with an [[AK-47|assault rifle]]. Note the red laser from the rifle.
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Trevor-PoliceMaverick-GTAV.jpg|Trevor stealing a Police Maverick in the mid-air as seen in [[Grand Theft Auto V/Trailers#Michael. Franklin. Trevor.|his trailer]].
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PoliceMaverick-Front-GTAV.png|A Police Maverick in'' GTA V''.
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LSPD Chopper Cam - GTA V.jpg|Camera view of the Police Maverick during [[Eye in the Sky]].
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PoliceMaverick-GTAV-DeployingNOOSE.png|A Police Maverick deploying [[National Office of Security Enforcement|NOOSE]] Officers.
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PaletoScore-GTAV-CrashedPoliceMaverick.png|Police Maverick wreck after [[The Paleto Score]]. The destroyed apartment is in the background.
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</gallery>
   
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==Special Variants==
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===3D Universe===
  +
A NPC version of the Police Maverick appears in ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'', ''Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories'' and ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories'', which only appears if the player has three or more [[Wanted Level in 3D Universe|wanted level]] stars. In reality, the NPC Police Maverick is the reused [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)|Police Helicopter]] from ''Grand Theft Auto III'', using the regular model of the ''GTA Vice City'' Police Maverick model <ref name="AMERICAN.GXT/ENGLISH.GXT">As suggested by the .GXT files:<br><br>AMERICAN.GXT text strings for the [[Helicopter (GTA III)|Helicopter (Escape)]], which is [[:File:PoliceHelicopter-GTAIII-HelicopterNameHUD.jpg|shared]] with [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)|Police Helicopter]] in ''GTA III'', and used for the NPC Police Maverick in the next 3D Universe games.</ref><ref name="AMERICAN.GXT/ENGLISH.GXT - GTA III/GTA Vice City">'''''Grand Theft Auto III''''':<br>\Grand Theft Auto III\text\american.gxt\HELI - <code>Helicopter</code><br><br>'''''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'''''<br>NPC Police Maverick:<br>\Grand Theft Auto Vice City\text\american.gxt\HELI - <code>Helicopter</code><br>Regular Police Maverick:<br>\Grand Theft Auto Vice City\text\american.gxt\POLMAV - <code>Police Maverick</code></ref><ref name="AMERICAN.GXT/ENGLISH.GXT - GTA Liberty City Stories/GTA Vice City Stories">'''''Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories''''' (PSP version)<br>Used in all Helicopters in the game; Not displayed in the HUD:<br>\PSP_GAME\USRDIR\TEXT\ENGLISH.GXT\HELI - <code>Helicopter</code><br><br>'''''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories''''' (PSP version)<br>NPC VCPD Maverick:<br>\PSP_GAME\USRDIR\TEXT\ENGLISH.GXT\CHOPPER - <code>VCPD Maverick</code><br>Regular VCPD Maverick:<br>\PSP_GAME\USRDIR\TEXT\ENGLISH.GXT\POLMAV - <code>VCPD Maverick</code></ref>, with slight differences: The back doors on airborne Police Mavericks slide back, unlike the usable ones, where the back doors of Police Mavericks available to the player swing open instead. The back doors are open for the animation of the [[Special Weapons and Tactics|SWAT]] team rappeling down from the police helicopter. In ''GTA Vice City Stories'', the slide-door variant retains the ''GTA Vice City'' green and white livery, contrary to the olive/gold and white livery of the drivable version. The slide-door variant is not normally available to the player. In ''GTA Liberty City Stories'', the windows of the helicopter are blackened, obscuring the interior.
   
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If the player manages to obtain it (not possible by normal means) in ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'', the helicopter is useless and does not accelerate. It also misses some features such as leaning (however, it can lean left/right), going down and turning. When the helicopter is in mid-air, it will fall through the ground immediately due to its "bullet/rocket collision only". This is due to the fact that there is no code in the game's handling files for the helicopter's flight characteristics. The game instead uses a special physics engine to control the AI-controlled police helicopter that follows the player at a high wanted level.
In [[Grand Theft Auto V]], the Police Maverick is based on the real-life ''[[wp:Eurocopter_AS350|American Eurocopter AS350B-2 A-Star]]'', replacing the ''Bell 206'' on which the beta Maverick was originally based. Features a rear slid-doors and a three-blade main rotor. It is used for higher level pursuits, finding illegal drug storage and other such crimes. One or two police officers will aim at the player with customized Carbine Rifles. The helicopter is also equipped with a high-intensity spotlight, capable of highlighting targets.
 
   
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In ''Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories'' however, the NPC Police Maverick performs exactly like a regular Police Maverick, due to the fact that there is no scripted path file for it like in ''GTA Vice City''. However, it retains its abilities, and is thus extremely responsive and fast - it can accelerate to full speed and also quickly stop. It can also accelerate upwards very fast, past the height limit of the game without any limitations, also retaining its black windows, obscuring its interior.
<gallery>
 
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ChasedVehicle2-GTAV.jpg|An LSPD Police Maverick in GTA V, with Police Officers armed with customised Carbine Rifles.
 
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<gallery position="center" spacing="small">
PoliceChopper&Infernus-GTAV.jpeg|A rear view of the helicopter in [[GTA V]], focusing its spotlight on an [[Infernus]]
 
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GTAVC - Police Maverick,NPC variant .jpg|Two police Mavericks in ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City''.
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Police Maverick-GTAVC-NPC.jpg|''GTA Vice City'', NPC variant with slide-doors.
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IOSnpcheli.jpg|Slide door variant being flown on an iPad.
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UnusedVCPDMaverick-GTAVCS-front.png|''GTA Vice City Stories'', slide-door variant available only through cheat devices.
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gta lcs.jpg|''GTA Liberty City Stories'' screenshot of an unobtainable NPC variant. Only available via cheat devices.
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
   
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===''Grand Theft Auto V''===
==Trivia==
 
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====Air Ambulance====
* Occasionally, in GTA IV when you hit the Police Maverick with a rocket in a specific place, such as the rotor blades or the tail, it will lean forward with the nose and plummet down, and explode upon impact with the ground. This is especially dangerous when you are directly below the helicopter when it crashes.
 
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In ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]'', there is a medical version of the Police Maverick, dubbed the "Air Ambulance". While this variant retains the Police Maverick design and name, the liveries have been changed into that of a medical variation, mostly consisting of red livery textures on the front section, tail boom and part of the underside.
*In all of the [[GTA III Era]] games, after you get four stars or higher, two police helicopters will be sent after the player. (In [[GTA San Andreas]] this happens when you get five or more stars.)
 
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*[[File: Police Maverick GTA IV.png|thumb|]]An easy way to take down a Police Maverick (or any other helicopter) in GTA San Andreas without using any [[rocket launcher|rockets]], is to shoot the rotor to which the blades are attached to with a [[sniper rifle]]. If the player hits the rotor directly, the helicopter will start smoking black smoke and then spinning out of control until it hits the ground and finally explodes, similar to what happens when a rocket hits it.
 
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<gallery position="center" widths="270px" spacing="small">
* In GTA Vice City, the red light on the back of airborne Police Mavericks is dislocated, and remain in the same place as its [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)|predecessor]].
 
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PoliceMaverickAirAmbulance-GTAV-front.png|The "'''Air Ambulance'''" variant of the Police Maverick in ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]''. (<small>[[:File:PoliceMaverickAirAmbulance-GTAV-rear.png|Rear quarter view]]</small>)
* In GTA Vice City, there is no Pilot in the chopper and is "driving by itself" this was fixed in GTA Vice City Stories however as you can see a pilot and his weapons will become obtainable after taking down the helicopter.
 
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AirAmbulance-GTAV-LShospital.jpg|Side view of the Air Ambulance in ''Grand Theft Auto V''.
* In the [[Beta Releases|beta version]] of GTA San Andreas, there were [[Los Santos Police Department|LSPD]] Police Mavericks.<ref>[http://www.gtasanandreas.net/screenshots/gallery.php?image=16 LSPD Maverick]</ref>
 
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AirAmbulance-GTAV-Flying.png|Air Ambulance in flight.
* GTA San Andreas is the only GTA game to date that lets the player turn on its powerful search light, but its the direction can only be controlled in the [[PC]] version - in console versions, it moves in the opposite direction to the movement of the helicopter. The light can only be turned on at night by pressing the left analog stick ([[Xbox]]), L3 button ([[PS2]]) or Left Shift key ([[PC]]).
 
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</gallery>
* If the player manages to steal the Police Maverick in GTA San Andreas while it is in flight, the helicopter will remain hostile. For example, if the player parks the helicopter and gets out, the helicopter's underbelly will shoot at the player from the ground; this is due to programming limitations however.
 
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* In GTA San Andreas, the mounted gun oddly bypasses any coding that would make the object/character invincible. For instance, it will damage the player even if the "Invincibility" [[Cheats in GTA San Andreas|cheat]] is activated. It also can damage a [[Rhino]], which would be impossible with any other firearm; only [[Molotov Cocktail|molotovs]], [[Flamethrower|flamethrowers]], and crashing the tank have the ability of damaging the Rhino.
 
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{{ModelSet
* In GTA San Andreas and GTA Vice City Stories, the player is able to steal the Police Maverick chasing them on certain occasions.
 
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* To ensure the player does not manage to gain control of an NPC Police Maverick in GTA Liberty City Stories, the helicopters are programmed to explode upon contact with the player, or fly higher than the player.
 
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* Whilst all Police Mavericks have Police Radios, the GTA Liberty City Stories rendition is equipped with a conventional radio.
 
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* The [[w:c:manhunt:Police Maverick|Police Maverick]] appears in [[Rockstar North]]'s [[Manhunt 2]], bearing the [[Vice City Police Department|VCPD's]] color scheme.
 
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* There is a [[Glitches|Glitch]] involving the Police Maverick in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] where once [[Niko Bellic|Niko]] gets out, the helicopter will start flying away and fall once it is realized that there is no Pilot. This is because the game still reads the helicopter as AI-Controlled. Holding Y (Xbox 360) or Triangle (PS3) to shut off the engine will prevent this. This will no longer happen when the player goes back to the safe-house from a considerable distance away from it.
 
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|modelset_livery = [[File:PoliceMaverick-GTAV-Details2.png|200px|Livery]]
*In GTA Vice City, AI Police Mavericks can be seen flying around without a wanted level. They are not solid and do not have any engine noise, for example, when you touch it you go right through it. They also can not be destroyed.
 
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|modelset_modkit = {{No}}
* Occasionally in Vice City Stories the Helicopters will keep ascending once destroyed until the game realizes the helicopter is destroyed.
 
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*There is a glitch in GTA III, GTA Vice City, and GTA LCS that if the Police Maverick is blown up in two pieces and the player activates the "Lower Wanted Level Cheat Code" or "Never Wanted Cheat Code", the helicopter will fly back into the air like nothing even happened. This only happens if the player's wanted level goes under three stars.
 
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*In GTA Vice City, if the player shoots down a helicopter and it crashes into the water, it will keep spinning downward indefinitely until it gets so far away it vanishes, or the player gets their wanted level under 3 stars. If the player's wanted level goes below 3 stars, the Helicopter will rapidly ascend, flying up out of the water or through the ground, and head directly up into the sky before vanishing.
 
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==Prominent Appearances in Missions==
*Despite a [[Police Helicopters To Help Fight Crime|news article mentioning]] that the LCPD didn't acquire [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)|Helicopters]] until 2001, Police Mavericks appear in [[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]], which is set in 1998.
 
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===''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas''===
*GTA Vice City Stories is the only GTA III Era game that you can see a Police Officer piloting the helicopter.
 
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*[[The Introduction]] - The Police Maverick is the first vehicle seen in these special cutscenes, flying over [[Tenpenny]] and [[Pulaski]] walking on the streets.
*In GTA Vice City and GTA Liberty City Stories, it is possible to spawn a slide-door Police Maverick. However, it will be invisible, and trying to enter it will crash the game, since the game will be looking for the missing door which does not exist on the helicopter. Even if it is controlled, it cannot be flown as pressing the "forward" key does nothing. It otherwise behaves like a normal helicopter, and it can be destroyed, either with the use of weapons or a cheat code.
 
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*[[Reuniting the Families]] - The first one appears at the beginning of the police raid at the [[Jefferson Motel]], the same helicopter will ambush [[Carl Johnson]] and [[Sweet Johnson|his brother]] after they manage to get out from the motel and must be destroyed in order to continue. The second one appears shortly after and will chase the crew through [[East Los Santos (3D Universe)|East Los Santos]].
*It is possible to hijack a slide-door Police Maverick in GTA Liberty City Stories, but only with a cheat device. When the player enters it, the game will show "HELICOPTER" on the bottom right of the screen. Interestingly enough, the gunner will continue to shoot the player. This helicopter has several unique properties - it is extremely responsive, has different flight characteristics and cannot be blown up with a cheat. It also retains its unique damage system and can pass through buildings and water unaffected. If the player stores it in a garage it will lose these properties and become invisible again.
 
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*[[Are You Going to San Fierro?]] - A Police Maverick will keep following CJ and [[The Truth]] and must be destroyed in order to escape from the [[Leafy Hollow|farm]].
*In the [[GTA III Era|GTA III era]], there was always a picture of a Police Maverick in the top-left corner of the every games' cover art (this is true for the North American cover art). The only GTA III Era game that didn't have this was [[GTA Advance]].
 
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*[[Cop Wheels]] - A Police Maverick is seen at the [[Las Venturas Hospital]] taking off from the building's parking lot when CJ arrives there.
*In GTA San Andreas, the Pilot, Gunner and Co-Pilot are "Jim", "Dave", "Ned", and "John" respectively. (Jim: There he is kill him, John! John: Why do I always do the fuckin' killing?!") and (John: Jim, you see anything? Jim: Over there!! shoot him!) And (Hey, I can see my house from here!) (Dave, will you shut the hell up? You, stop!!) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFl5po-3SFw&feature=related GTA San Andreas Police Quotes].
 
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*[[Breaking the Bank at Caligula's]] - The first will ambush CJ once he reach the roof of the [[Caligula's Palace]] and can be destroyed, the second will land on the roof of [[The Clown's Pocket]] and can be stolen in order to escape towards the [[Verdant Meadows Airfield]].
*In GTA Liberty City Stories, one of the Pilots is called "Jimmy". (Co-Pilot: Jimmy, can you keep this 'copter steady?").
 
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*In GTA IV, if the two riflemen are killed Independently the Police Maverick will leave and return with two new riflemen in about a minute.
 
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===''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories''===
*In GTA San Andreas there is a Glitch only on the Xbox and PC version. If the player does a replay then the Police Maverick will fly away after the replay is done or exited.
 
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*[[Turn on, Tune in, Bug out]] - A Police Maverick flies to the [[Little Havana Police Station]] with two [[Vice City Police Department (3D Universe)|VCPD officers]] hanging on the right side to protect two antennas on the rooftop of the building.
*In GTA LCS, the Police Maverick can get throught to some solid thing, for example rock cliffs.
 
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*In GTA San Andreas, If player is standing on the Police helicopter for too long while the helicopter is shooting at the player, it may shoot itself down. (This can only be done with [[Jetpack]].)
 
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===''The Lost And Damned''===
*In GTA San Andreas, a Police Maverick will not shoot the player if they are inside any aircraft, it will only chase the player instead.
 
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*One Police Maverick made a small cameo in [[Shifting Weight]] where it will join the police chase when [[Johnny Klebitz]], [[Malc]] and [[DeSean]] reach the [[Northwood Heights Bridge]]. It can be destroyed.
*In GTA Vice City, the machine gun actually fires from the back rather than under the belly.
 
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*If you spawn the unobtainable slide door variant (through trainers only) and get in, the pilot seat is actually in the passenger seat in the back and the player can't take off, only hover. It has a breakable tail and the chopper always is too heavy, causing it to sink. The helicopter also lacks the rotors.
 
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===''The Ballad of Gay Tony''===
*In GTA San Andreas, the A.I. controlled Police maverick may sometimes appear under the ground if you use the [[Jetpack]] to shake the maverick off multiple times.
 
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*In [[Not So Fast]], after [[Luis Fernando Lopez|Luis Lopez]] has stolen the [[diamonds]], few [[Liberty City Police Department (HD Universe)|LCPD]] officers will arrive with the helicopter on the roof of [[The Libertonian]] and will try to kill the player.
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*In [[For the Man Who Has Everything]], several Police Mavericks will try to kill the player.
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===''Grand Theft Auto V''===
  +
*In [[The Long Stretch]], police arrive in two Police Mavericks as an attempt to take out [[Franklin Clinton|Franklin]], [[Lamar Davis|Lamar]] and [[Stretch (character)|Stretch]].
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*In [[Eye in the Sky]], [[Trevor Philips|Trevor]] must assist Franklin in the theft of the [[Z-Type]] using the Police Maverick's equipment.
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*In [[The Paleto Score]], a [[National Office of Security Enforcement|NOOSE]] team confronts the crew in a Police Maverick, but it is taken down and crashes into a nearby [[South Seas Apartments|building]].
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*In [[The Big Score (GTA V)|The Big Score]], Police Mavericks are seen in both approaches.
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**In the ''Subtle'' approach, one attempts to take out the crew's [[Gauntlet]]s and a second one appears in the cutscene trying to locate the suspects (which were already hidden in the trucks).
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**In the ''Obvious'' approach, one is seen deploying NOOSE agents in a nearby elevation trying to take out the crew and two are seen carrying LSPD officers with the same objective.
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===''Grand Theft Auto Online''===
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*In [[Chopper Tail]], the [[GTA Online Protagonist|player]] must follow a police helicopter to the meth lab where the [[Granger]] with the equipment is located.
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*An Air Ambulance variant is provided in an [[Air Freight Cargo]] [[Air Freight Cargo/Steal Missions|steal mission]]. The passengers can use [[Sniper Rifles]] to take down the enemies.
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*Pairs of Police Mavericks may appear in an Air Freight Cargo [[Air Freight Cargo/Sell Missions|Sell mission]] involving a [[Mogul]]. These are marked as regular enemy helicopters and carry NOOSE agents armed with [[Combat MG]]s.
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*Appears on the helipad of a building across the highway from [[The Diamond Casino & Resort]] in the [[Casino Heist]], where it can be used by players to escape. This may be either the regular version or the ambulance variant.
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*Used by attacking enemies in the [[Project 4808D: Desert]] and [[Project 4808E: Arena]] survivals.
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*In [[Planning Work: Vault Code]] as part of [[The Union Depository Contract]], the [[GTA Online Protagonist|player]] steals a Police Maverick in order to tail the [[Union Depository Bank Manager]] and use its camera equipment to take incriminating evidence of the bank manager's extramarital affair.
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*In [[Investigation: The Ballas]] as part of [[South Central Leak]], a Police Maverick appears in the shootout and remains in the area while the [[Ballas (HD Universe)|Ballas]] run away from the police presence, but disappears after the interrogation of [[P]].
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*In [[Acid Product: Police sting]], a Police Maverick can be seen on a building near the parking garage where the deal will take place, and will take off to intercept the player.
   
 
==Locations==
 
==Locations==
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Like the [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)|Police Helicopter]] in ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]'', pursuing Police Mavericks appear at wanted levels of at least three stars. In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]'', ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]]'', the helicopter is usually always parked on the roof of the main police station of the city.
;GTA Vice City
 
*On top of the [[Downtown Vice City|Downtown]] [[Vice City Police Department|VCPD]] helipad.
 
   
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===''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City''===
;GTA San Andreas
 
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*On top of the [[Downtown Vice City|Downtown]] [[Vice City Police Department (3D Universe)|VCPD]] helipad.
*On top of the [[Los Santos Police Department|LSPD]] rooftop in [[Pershing Square]], [[Los Santos]] after completing the mission [[Learning to Fly]].
 
   
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===''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas''===
;GTA Vice City Stories
 
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*On top of the [[Los Santos Police Department (3D Universe)|LSPD]] [[Los Santos Police Headquarters|Headquarters]] rooftop in [[Pershing Square]], [[Los Santos (3D Universe)|Los Santos]] after completing the mission [[Learning to Fly]].
*On roof of the Downtown police station (after the mission From Zero to Hero is completed.)
 
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*It can be acquired in mid-flight during a police chase by climbing on the top of a crane and hijacking it when it flies by.
*On the roof of the [[Washington Beach]] police station (before and after the mission From Zero To Hero.)
 
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*It can also be acquired during [[Breaking the Bank at Caligula's]]. The player is, at some point, tasked to parachute to a rooftop and use it to escape (though this is optional). It is possible to store it simply by parking it inside the [[Verdant Meadows Airfield|Verdant Meadows]] hangar then walking onto the red marker to complete the mission.
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*Police Mavericks can frequently be seen flying over gang controlled neighborhoods in Los Santos and San Fierro when the player lacks a wanted level. If the player obtains a wanted level while one is nearby, they will not give chase unless the wanted level is three stars or higher.
   
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===''Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories''===
;GTA IV
 
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*This helicopter does not spawn anywhere and cannot be obtained by normal means.
*1st Method - Only obtainable by sniping the pilot, making the helicopter slowly hover to the ground undamaged. It only works 5/10 times, which means in which the Police Maverick will spin rapidly around in circles, hitting the ground with fierce force and exploding. Also obtainable by an even more frustrating process in which the helicopter is disabled at a low enough altitude that all occupants live, and then the Police Maverick is pushed into a SafeHouse Parking Spot. That method probably works less often than the previous. Other than that, you can only fly the Police Maverick in MultiPlayer [[Races in GTA IV|Race Mode]].
 
*2nd method - Go to middle of pond in [[Middle Park]] and snipe people until you get a three star wanted level. When the helicopter appears, shoot the Pilot from the side. If it falls in shallow water, it is yours. Since the Police Officers will not try to swim to the island to get you, you will have plenty of chances to get the Police Maverick before the [[Annihilator|NOOSE Annihilators]] appear.
 
'''NOTE:''' If the player manages to lure the helicopter over the pond in [[Middle Park]], it will be easier to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZakpGUpz0U obtain], although the helicopter must have an open space and the water must be shallow.
 
* (Multiplayer only) On the rooftop helipad of the [[East Holland]] police station in [[Algonquin]].
 
* In [[TBOGT|TBoGT]], during the mission "[[Not So Fast]]", you can steal a Police Maverick when you have to climb back on to the roof to get back in Yusuf's [[Buzzard]] by waiting a few seconds, when a Police Maverick will land on the roof.
 
   
;Grand Theft Auto V
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===''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories''===
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*On the roof of the Downtown police station (after the mission [[From Zero to Hero]] is completed).
* '''TBA'''
 
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*On the roof of the [[Washington Beach]] police station (before and after the mission From Zero To Hero).
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===''Grand Theft Auto IV'' and ''Episodes from Liberty City''===
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The Police Maverick does not spawn on top of police stations like in previous games, so the only way to obtain one is by using the [[Forum:The Helicopter Sniping Trick|Helicopter Sniping Trick]] using one of two methods:
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*First method - Obtainable by sniping the pilot, making the helicopter slowly hover to the ground undamaged. It only works 50% of the time; the rest of the time the Police Maverick will spin rapidly around in circles, hitting the ground with fierce force and exploding. Also obtainable by an even more frustrating process in which the helicopter is disabled at a low enough altitude that all occupants live, and then the Police Maverick is pushed into a [[Safehouses|safehouse]] Parking Spot. That method probably works less often than the previous. Other than that, one can only fly the Police Maverick in [[multiplayer]] [[Races in GTA IV|Race Mode]].
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*Second method - Go to middle of the pond in [[Middle Park]] and snipe people until a three star wanted level is obtained. When the helicopter appears, shoot the pilot from the side. If it falls in shallow water, the player may obtain it. Since the Police Officers will not try to swim to the island to go after the player, they will have plenty of chances to get the Police Maverick before the [[Annihilator]] appears.
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If the player manages to lure the helicopter over the pond in Middle Park, it will be easier to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZakpGUpz0U obtain], although the helicopter must have an open space and the water must be shallow.
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====''The Ballad of Gay Tony''====
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=====Singleplayer=====
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*During the mission "[[Not So Fast]]", one can steal a Police Maverick when the player has to climb back on to the roof to get back in Yusuf's [[Buzzard]] by waiting a few seconds, when a Police Maverick will land on the roof.
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*On the rooftop helipad of the [[East Holland]] police station in [[Algonquin]].
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===''Grand Theft Auto V'' and ''Online''===
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====Police Maverick====
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*[[Vespucci Canals]] on [[Prosperity Street]] - On top of the [[Vespucci Police Station]].
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*[[Davis]] on [[Innocence Boulevard]] - On top of the [[Davis Sheriff's Station]] (sometimes an unarmed Buzzard will spawn instead). Stealing it will cause a one star [[Wanted Level in GTA V|wanted level]], but that can be easily evaded with the vehicle itself.
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*On the top of [[Mission Row Police Station]] (sometimes an unarmed Buzzard will spawn there). Once the player is on the roof, they receive an automatic 3-star wanted level
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*Can be obtained during a 3-star wanted level by waiting it to land on the ground to deploy four agents, then taking everyone out (ensuring the pilot is taken out). It works better on [[Los Santos Naval Port]] ([[Elysian Island]]), as it has ample room for the Police Mavericks and officers in [[Interceptor|Police Cruisers]] will rarely arrive here, unless the player is at the far side of the restricted facility.
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*On the roof of the [[Weazel News Building]] helipad.
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*Police Mavericks regularly patrols various locations in [[State of San Andreas (HD Universe)|San Andreas]], particularly [[South Los Santos]] and [[Mission Row]]/[[Legion Square]]. Less frequently, they patrol [[Los Santos County]] and even more rarely [[Blaine County]].
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*At least one of them will patrol [[Los Santos International Airport (HD Universe)|Los Santos International Airport]] and [[Bolingbroke Penitentiary]].
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====Air Ambulance====
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*Spawns on two helipads at [[Central Los Santos Hospital]].
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*Can be seen flying around the [[Bolingbroke Penitentiary]] due to a glitch.
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*Sometimes spawns on the top of the [[Vinewood Police Station]] helipad (can sometimes spawn as a regular Police Maverick as well).
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===''Grand Theft Auto Online''===
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====Police Maverick====
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*Sometimes found in the same locations mentioned above.
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**Will spawn more frequently when a player that is close to these locations has a 3-star wanted level or higher being pursued by Police Mavericks, as this will work as a spawn seed.
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*Spawns on top of [[Mission Row Police Station]] during the Clubhouse Contact Mission of P.O.W at this location.
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*Appears in the [[Planning Work: Vault Code]] and can be kept upon completion of the mission, although the steady control and camera features are no longer available.
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====Air Ambulance====
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*Sometimes spawns on the helipads at [[Central Los Santos Hospital]].
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*Sometimes spawns on top of the [[Vinewood Police Station]], [[Vespucci Police Station]] and [[Weazel News Building]] (can sometimes spawn as a regular Police Maverick as well).
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==Video==
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==Rewards==
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===Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online===
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*The Police Maverick gives the player a [[Sniper Rifle]] upon entry.
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==Trivia==
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{{Cleanup}}
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===3D Universe===
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*The {{Manhunt|Police Maverick}} is featured in [[Rockstar North]]'s ''[[Manhunt 2]]'' as one of the numerous unusable vehicles, bearing the [[Vice City Police Department (3D Universe)|VCPD's]] color scheme.
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*In ''GTA Vice City'' and ''GTA Liberty City Stories'', while it is possible to spawn the slide-door Police Maverick that pursues the player, it will be invisible, and trying to enter it will crash the game, since the game will be looking for the missing door that does not exist on the helicopter. Even if it is controlled, it cannot be flown as pressing the "forward" key does nothing. It otherwise behaves like a normal helicopter, and it can be destroyed, either with the use of weapons or a cheat code. This is because, they are not supposed to be obtained.
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*In ''GTA Liberty City Stories'', the Police Maverick uses the LOD of the controllable ''GTA Vice City'' Police Maverick, with decals and colours changed.
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*In ''GTA Vice City'', the machine gun actually fires from the back rather than under the belly.
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*In ''GTA Vice City'', the red light on the back of airborne Police Mavericks is dislocated, and remain in the same place as its [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)|predecessor]].
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*Police Mavericks can be seen flying around without a wanted level. They are not solid and do not have any engine noise. They also can not be destroyed, and their rotors are static. In the PC Version of ''GTA San Andreas'', this is not the case, and they can be shot down by the player using the [[minigun]] or other heavy arms (which instantly grants a 3 star wanted level). In ''GTA San Andreas'', Police Mavericks are most commonly seen patrolling areas of Los Santos dominated by gang crime, including [[Grove Street]] and [[Idlewood]]. They can also be observed flying around airports, presumably to monitor incoming and outgoing flights.
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*In the [[Beta Releases|beta version]] of ''GTA San Andreas'', there were [[Los Santos Police Department (3D Universe)|LSPD]] Police Mavericks.
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*''GTA San Andreas'' is the only ''GTA'' game to date that lets the player turn on its powerful search light, but its direction can only be controlled in the [[Personal Computer|PC]] version – in console versions, it moves in the opposite direction to the movement of the helicopter. The light can only be turned on at night by pressing {{button|leftstick}} ([[Xbox (console)|Xbox]]), {{button|l3}} ([[PlayStation 2|PS2]]) or the horn button (by default: Caps-Lock or H) ([[Personal Computer|PC]]).
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**This function is unavailable on the mobile version of ''GTA San Andreas'', due to the action button being unavailable. However, if the player connects a gamepad to their device and presses the action/sub-mission button, the searchlight can be turned on.
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**This feature does not seem to work on the HD remaster ports of ''San Andreas'' as pressing either the action/sub-mission button does nothing.
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*If the player manages to steal the Police Maverick in ''GTA San Andreas'' while it is in flight, the helicopter will remain hostile. For example, if the player parks the helicopter and gets out, shots will be coming at the player from the underbelly of the helicopter from the ground; this is due to programming limitations.
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*In ''GTA San Andreas'', the pilot, gunner and co-pilot are named "Jim", "Dave", "Ned", and "John" respectively. (Jim: There he is kill him, John! John: Why do I always do the fuckin' killing?!") and (John: Jim, you see anything? Jim: Over there!! shoot him!) And (Hey, I can see my house from here!) (Dave, will you shut the hell up? You, stop!!)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFl5po-3SFw&feature=related GTA San Andreas Police Quotes]</ref>.
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*In ''GTA San Andreas'', the Police Maverick will not pursue the player in sand storms, likely due to poor visibility. If the player enters a sand storm or changes the weather via cheats, any pursuing Police Maverick will simply abandon the chase and fly away.
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*The mounted gun oddly bypasses any coding that would make the object/character invincible. For instance, it will damage the player even if the "Invincibility" [[Cheats in GTA San Andreas|cheat]] is activated. It also can damage a [[Rhino]], despite it being very resistant to bullet-based weapons.
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*Despite a [[Liberty Tree/Police Helicopters To Help Fight Crime|news article mentioning]] that the LCPD didn't acquire [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)|Helicopters]] until 2001, Police Mavericks appear in ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories]]'', which is set in 1998.
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*In ''Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories'', one of the pilots is called "Jimmy". (Co-Pilot: Jimmy, can you keep this 'copter steady?").
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*In ''GTA Vice City'', the Police Maverick that chases the player is invulnerable to any forms of weapons but very vulnerable to both the [[Rocket Launcher]] and [[Sniper Rifle]]. Unlike other vehicles that explode into a black object, the Police Maverick explodes into shard-like pieces. The destruction of the Police Maverick awards the player $250 and half wanted star.
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*In ''GTA San Andreas'', saving and Loading a game at the Jefferson safehouse will usually cause a Police Maverick to spawn outside. A nearby gang member will usually flee on foot, even abandoning any vehicle they were driving. At night, the Police Maverick will use their searchlight to follow the gang member.
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===''Grand Theft Auto V'' and ''Online''===
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[[File:Artwork-CashAndCarry-ByLand-GTAV.jpg|thumb|150px|One of the artworks of the Police Maverick. Note that it assumes the design of its real-life inspiration.]]
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*In one of the ''GTA V'' [[Artworks]], the Police Maverick appears to assume the Eurocopter AS350B design, evidenced by the shorter rear doors and the different searchlight positioning, as well as a different livery, very different from the current one used by the vehicle in-game (excluding the "LSPD" on its underside, which remains the same).
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*In the first trailer, the Police Maverick was initially based on its ''GTA IV'' rendition with the current black and white scheme.
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*Unlike in ''GTA IV'', Police Mavericks and [[Buzzard]]s are never used by the LSPD during wanted levels, but only by [[National Office of Security Enforcement|NOOSE]] agents. Only the ones used during certain missions and those flying above [[Grove Street (HD Universe)|Grove Street]], [[Vinewood]], and [[Davis]] are used by the LSPD.
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**Those spawning flying above the city will never chase the player while being wanted and will keep their scripted scenario, although the game will still mark them as active helicopters and will spot the player if they remain "identified" (i.e. not switching vehicles out of sight). If the player attempts to approach them while being wanted, the copilot will attack them with a [[Pistol]].
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*Police Maverick officers may talk through the megaphone quotes like "LSPD, hands up" and "Stop right there". They sound more muffled than the quotes read from the LSPD Cruisers, possibly due to their height.
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*Due to the "Air Ambulance" only being a variant of the Police Maverick rather than a separate vehicle, it tends to spawn flying around the [[Bolingbroke Penitentiary]] instead of the regular Police Maverick.
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*While the Police Maverick is programmed to carry two people in the rear bay during regular gameplay, those that spawn during wanted levels and are deploying NOOSE officers on the ground will have two more appearing from behind the rear wall of the bay, as if the aircraft is capable of carrying six people.
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==Bugs/Glitches==
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===3D Universe===
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*If the player shoots down a Police Maverick and lowers their wanted level below three-star through cheat codes, the Police Maverick will fly away as if nothing happened. Police Mavericks that fly away are also invulnerable to any form of damage.
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====''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City''====
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*If the player shoots down a pursuing Police Maverick and is busted or wasted near the same moment the Maverick explodes, they will sometimes automatically regain a 4 star wanted level if they respawn at a Police Station or Hospital in the vicinity of the wrecked Maverick.
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*If the player goes inside [[Phil Cassidy]]'s hangar next to his home, the Police Maverick will suddenly fly away and despawn.
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====''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas''====
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*If the player does a replay, then the Police Maverick will fly away after the replay is done or exited.
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*The AI-controlled Police Maverick may sometimes appear under the ground if using the Jetpack to shake the Maverick off multiple times.
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*If the player manages to steal the AI-controlled Police Maverick, land, and exit the helicopter, the helicopter will act like it's still controlled by the AI, albeit can't fly anymore. It will even deploy S.W.A.T. Team members if the player has more than 3 wanted stars.
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**Doing a replay whilst controlling the hijacked Police Maverick will cause CJ to be [[Wasted|wasted]].
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===HD Universe===
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====''Grand Theft Auto IV''====
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*Once [[Niko Bellic|Niko]] gets out of a Police Maverick, the helicopter will start flying away and fall once it is realized that there is no pilot. This is because the game still reads the helicopter as AI-controlled. This will no longer happen when the player goes back to the safe house from a considerable distance away from it. This also happens with the [[Annihilator]] if it is obtained with the same method.
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**Holding {{button|Y}}/{{button|triangle}} to shut off the engine will prevent this.
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**Leaving the helicopter very close to the ground and then pressing {{button|LT}}/{{button|l2}} immediately before pressing {{button|Y}}/{{button|triangle}} may hurt the player a bit, but the helicopter will not suffer this glitch, as it will not have enough time to ascend by itself.
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***This bug was fixed in [[Grand Theft Auto IV/Title Update Notes|The Complete Edition]] update on PC.
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====''Grand Theft Auto V''====
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*Sometimes, after a helicopter lands, the pilot will be alive (if the helicopter is still intact, but the engine is broken), it will be locked and the pilot remains in it, alive. Pointing a gun at him will make him flinch, although he will remain in the helicopter still. For example, the helicopter crashes into a suspect in a [[Jet]], the helicopter might just stop working, but the pilot will stay in it and it will float down.
   
 
==References==
 
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==See Also==
* [[Police Helicopter (GTA III)]]
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* [[Buzzard 1]]
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* Complementary information on the Police Maverick:
 
** [[Police Maverick/Tips and Tricks|Tips and tricks]]
 
** [[The Helicopter Sniping Trick|Helicopter Sniping Trick]]
 
   
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For other Police Helicopters, see Police Helicopter (GTA III).
For the Air Ambulance in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories see Air Ambulance.

The Police Maverick (also known as the VCPD Maverick) appearing in every game since Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and due to appear in Grand Theft Auto VI.

It is manufactured by Western Company in Grand Theft Auto IV and Buckingham in Grand Theft Auto V.

Description

The Police Maverick flown by the police possesses many characteristics of the preceding Police Helicopter in Grand Theft Auto III. All versions of the vehicle are used by the police forces of the city during Wanted Levels, from three stars and above.

Design

In all of its appearances, the Police Maverick is a police adaptation of the civilian Maverick helicopter (excluding GTA V), usually seen operated by and deploying SWAT (3D Universe) or NOOSE (HD Universe) units.

3D Universe

In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the helicopter is used by the VCPD, having either a green primary color and white secondary color (GTA Vice City) or an olive/gold primary color and white secondary color (GTA Vice City Stories), with the "POLICE" text on the underside.

In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the Maverick is used by the SAPD and is operated in all of the three main cities. Apart from the different registration numbers on the tail boom and the black primary color and white secondary color, the Police Maverick remains unchanged from its previous game.

The Police Maverick exists in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, although it does not spawn normally as other renditions. It has the same details as the previous versions, except for a blue primary color and white secondary color, and the LCPD markings.

The Police Maverick flown by the police has no height limit and can go through buildings, without a chance of crashing either. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, the uncontrollable Police Maverick piloted by cops still has the handling and other characteristics from the uncontrollable helicopter in GTA III, although it uses the polygon model from the Police Maverick available to the player. Excluding GTA San Andreas and GTA Vice City Stories, pressing the vehicle enter button has no effect for police-flown Police Mavericks. In GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories, to ensure the player is not going to obtain one, police-flown helicopters blow up upon contact with the player. The helicopter has an "invisible" 5.56mm machine gun on the fuselage (sounding like an M-60, but with much less power), as well as a searchlight, and a loudspeaker (used by the Police to address the player from the skies), which is only absent in the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories rendition. Unlike its GTA III counterpart, the Police Maverick can airdrop SWAT units on ropes at four star wanted levels. A functional searchlight is also available on the GTA San Andreas rendition.

In GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas and GTA Liberty City Stories, the inside cabin is empty and there is no visible NPC flying the Police Maverick when it is flown by police. In GTA Vice City Stories, however, the VCPD Maverick has a pilot appearing as a normal Police Officer without any pilot gear, and upon the destruction of the chopper, the pilot will drop a Pistol and a Nightstick.

Grand Theft Auto IV

The Police Maverick in Grand Theft Auto IV and its episodes remains as an adaptation of the regular Maverick, with its design also based on that of the Bell 206. The livery is loosely based on those used on a previous generation of New York City Police helicopters, but with a reversed color scheme. The Police Maverick has a searchlight on the nose and, unlike its civilian or Helitours counterpart, features sidesteps on the rear bay doors. Color distribution is different to that of the regular Maverick, appearing in a white primary color for most of the fuselage and tail boom, and a secondary color for the engine compartment, part of the tail boom, and in the form of thin stripes passing on the sides. It also bears the LCPD markings, with "POLICE" text on the nose and tail boom.

Replacing the original "invisible" machine gun under the fuselage, there are two Police Officers seated on both sides of the helicopter, programmed to shoot the player with Carbine Rifles (or Advanced MGs in The Ballad of Gay Tony), with NOOSE agents replacing police officers in Mavericks at four stars (provided that the FIB does not respond). The ability to deploy units has been removed from the game and, unlike in the 3D Universe, it may be replaced by the Annihilator from higher wanted levels, from five stars and above.

Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars

The Police Maverick has the same design as the GTA IV rendition, except that it is uncontrollable and uses a more traditional livery, being a thin blue stripe on the lower side and the "POLICE" text below the front door windows. It also has the same machine gun mounted as in the 3D Universe games, unlike GTA IV. It is obtainable through a secret method in the mission Payback.

Grand Theft Auto V and Online

In Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online, the Police Maverick has been redesigned with a modern appearance, based on the French Eurocopter AS350B. The livery is based on the design of the one used on the Los Angeles Police helicopters.

The aircraft assumes a completely different design and is no longer based on the regular Maverick, although given its name, it is implied to be a newer generation of the aforementioned vehicle (something seen with multiple vehicles in the same game). The front section is rather triangular in shape and is predominated by large windows, along with two access doors on the sides and a searchlight/camera below, similarly to the Frogger, Annihilator, Maverick, Buzzard and Buzzard Attack Chopper. Similar to the aforementioned aircraft, only NPC-operated Police Mavericks can use the searchlight, and players that sit on the copilot seat can use the camera to look around and tag other players.

The main section has a large bay with sliding doors that are always open, small side steps for access, and long skids on the underside, while the upper area has a tall engine compartment with two large exhausts, a three-bladed main rotor and two mounted winches, which can be used by either NOOSE officers or other players in Grand Theft Auto Online. The tail boom is relatively long and features a strike guard below, large vertical stabilizers and small horizontal stabilizers, as well as a two-bladed tail rotor on the left.

The interior of the aircraft is similar than that of the Maverick, being a large flight instrument panel in the center. In the enhanced version, it uses the "Flyer" dial set that is also used on the Maverick and the Buzzard.

The aircraft is only available in a white primary color with a black livery texture on the front section and tail boom, along with LSPD markings on the sides and below the aircraft, with the LSPD emblem partially seen behind the sliding doors.

According to its functionality and the pilot during the mission Eye in the Sky, the mounted camera allows the user to identify individuals by reading RFID transmitters placed in 2012 San Andreas driver licenses. It is marked with the zoom bar, the direction, the height, and the LSPD name marked in a corner. It can activate a microphone to hear distant conversations and is implemented with thermal vision (much like Sniper Rifles in missions). The limitations of the device include a signal lost when the objective is hiding behind a solid structure unless thermal vision is used. In the enhanced version of Grand Theft Auto Online, some missions require the player to scan license plates of vehicles.

Current Design Gallery

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Front quarter view

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Top view

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Rear quarter view

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Underside view

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Detailing

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Inside view

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Other modelling


Version History Gallery

Performance

3D Universe

The Police Maverick flyable by the player controls similarly to a normal Maverick, differing only by its ability to pitch steeper than a regular Maverick (especially in games prior to GTA IV), due to the slightly decreased mass (4,500kg vs 5,000kg of the normal Maverick). The Police Maverick has a slight better top speed and handling, given its usage as a police vehicle. While it does not have weapons or an average resistance, the Police Maverick is still a good choice for flying around the city.

3D Universe Overview


Aircraft Statistics - 3D Universe
Take-Off Speed
(0-60 knots in Seconds)
Top Speed
(mph / kmh / knots)
Engine Type Engine Location Mass
(kg / lbs)
Handling.dat
N/A 124 / 200 / 108 Petrol N/A 4500 / 9921
Observed
N/A N/A Single turboshaft engine, two-bladed rotor Middle/Rear Cannot be observed

Grand Theft Auto IV

The Police Maverick appears to have a similar performance to its civilian counterpart, being easy to control, useful for navigating through the city. Its single turboshaft engine provides good power output for its blades, allowing for controllable movements, at the cost of being rather slow compared to the powerplant of the Annihilator or the small size of the Buzzard. In other words, the Police Maverick performs averagely, just like the standard version.

Because of the rather exposed cockpit, the front occupants may get shot from enemies in tall places or armed with assault rifles, considering the lower windows may be a weak spot for them when flying above these.

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Aircraft Statistics - Grand Theft Auto IV
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N/A 99 / 160 / 86 N/A N/A 4500 / 9921
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Observed
N/A N/A Single turboshaft engine, four-bladed rotor Middle/Rear Cannot be observed

Grand Theft Auto V and Online

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The Police Maverick has mediocre performance compared to other helicopters. However, as a freely available helicopter, it can be used for quick extractions or escapes. The aircraft is fairly maneuverable and has a descent airspeed. However, the Police Maverick's speed falls short of luxury helicopters such as the Swift or attack helicopters like the FH-1 Hunter. Its climbing rate remains average for a transport helicopter and has an average weight.

The helicopter is unarmored and only two shots from the Heavy Sniper will be enough to damage the engine, although it can fly for a little over two minutes before the engine completely fails. Just like every other unarmored helicopter, the Police Maverick will be destroyed in only one hit from a standard explosive. Against the Heavy Sniper Mk II equipped with explosive rounds, the helicopter will only take two to three hits. Because of its decent maneuverability, the Police Maverick is able to avoid standard homing missiles but, just like all helicopters without countermeasures, fails to avoid missiles with better tracking fired from the vehicles such as the: Deluxo, Oppressor Mk II, or Ruiner 2000. Due to the open cockpit, the front occupants are very exposed to gunfire. The tail of the helicopter can be shot to destroy it more quickly.

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Aircraft Statistics - Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online
Take-Off Speed
(0-60 knots in Seconds)
Top Speed
(mph / kmh / knots)
Vertical Climb/ Descent Rate
(ft/min)
Engine Type Engine Location Mass
(kg / lbs)
Fuel Tank
Size (litres)
Handling.meta
N/A 99 / 160 / 86 N/A N/A N/A 6500 / 14330 100
Website Statements [?]
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Observed / First-Person Airspeed Indicator (Enhanced version)
N/A N/A N/A Single turboshaft engine, three-bladed rotor Rear Cannot be observed Cannot be observed


Weapon Statistics - Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online
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0 2 50 / 164 1 N/A N/A
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Grand Theft Auto V and Online

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3D Universe

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

HD Universe

Grand Theft Auto IV

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Grand Theft Auto V

Special Variants

3D Universe

A NPC version of the Police Maverick appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, which only appears if the player has three or more wanted level stars. In reality, the NPC Police Maverick is the reused Police Helicopter from Grand Theft Auto III, using the regular model of the GTA Vice City Police Maverick model [3][1][2], with slight differences: The back doors on airborne Police Mavericks slide back, unlike the usable ones, where the back doors of Police Mavericks available to the player swing open instead. The back doors are open for the animation of the SWAT team rappeling down from the police helicopter. In GTA Vice City Stories, the slide-door variant retains the GTA Vice City green and white livery, contrary to the olive/gold and white livery of the drivable version. The slide-door variant is not normally available to the player. In GTA Liberty City Stories, the windows of the helicopter are blackened, obscuring the interior.

If the player manages to obtain it (not possible by normal means) in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the helicopter is useless and does not accelerate. It also misses some features such as leaning (however, it can lean left/right), going down and turning. When the helicopter is in mid-air, it will fall through the ground immediately due to its "bullet/rocket collision only". This is due to the fact that there is no code in the game's handling files for the helicopter's flight characteristics. The game instead uses a special physics engine to control the AI-controlled police helicopter that follows the player at a high wanted level.

In Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories however, the NPC Police Maverick performs exactly like a regular Police Maverick, due to the fact that there is no scripted path file for it like in GTA Vice City. However, it retains its abilities, and is thus extremely responsive and fast - it can accelerate to full speed and also quickly stop. It can also accelerate upwards very fast, past the height limit of the game without any limitations, also retaining its black windows, obscuring its interior.

Grand Theft Auto V

Air Ambulance

In Grand Theft Auto V, there is a medical version of the Police Maverick, dubbed the "Air Ambulance". While this variant retains the Police Maverick design and name, the liveries have been changed into that of a medical variation, mostly consisting of red livery textures on the front section, tail boom and part of the underside.

AMBULANCE_HELI
File Color Set Window Tint? Livery? Mod Kit
N/A No Livery No

Prominent Appearances in Missions

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

The Lost And Damned

The Ballad of Gay Tony

Grand Theft Auto V

  • In The Long Stretch, police arrive in two Police Mavericks as an attempt to take out Franklin, Lamar and Stretch.
  • In Eye in the Sky, Trevor must assist Franklin in the theft of the Z-Type using the Police Maverick's equipment.
  • In The Paleto Score, a NOOSE team confronts the crew in a Police Maverick, but it is taken down and crashes into a nearby building.
  • In The Big Score, Police Mavericks are seen in both approaches.
    • In the Subtle approach, one attempts to take out the crew's Gauntlets and a second one appears in the cutscene trying to locate the suspects (which were already hidden in the trucks).
    • In the Obvious approach, one is seen deploying NOOSE agents in a nearby elevation trying to take out the crew and two are seen carrying LSPD officers with the same objective.

Grand Theft Auto Online

Locations

Like the Police Helicopter in Grand Theft Auto III, pursuing Police Mavericks appear at wanted levels of at least three stars. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the helicopter is usually always parked on the roof of the main police station of the city.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

  • On top of the LSPD Headquarters rooftop in Pershing Square, Los Santos after completing the mission Learning to Fly.
  • It can be acquired in mid-flight during a police chase by climbing on the top of a crane and hijacking it when it flies by.
  • It can also be acquired during Breaking the Bank at Caligula's. The player is, at some point, tasked to parachute to a rooftop and use it to escape (though this is optional). It is possible to store it simply by parking it inside the Verdant Meadows hangar then walking onto the red marker to complete the mission.
  • Police Mavericks can frequently be seen flying over gang controlled neighborhoods in Los Santos and San Fierro when the player lacks a wanted level. If the player obtains a wanted level while one is nearby, they will not give chase unless the wanted level is three stars or higher.

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

  • This helicopter does not spawn anywhere and cannot be obtained by normal means.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

  • On the roof of the Downtown police station (after the mission From Zero to Hero is completed).
  • On the roof of the Washington Beach police station (before and after the mission From Zero To Hero).

Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes from Liberty City

The Police Maverick does not spawn on top of police stations like in previous games, so the only way to obtain one is by using the Helicopter Sniping Trick using one of two methods:

  • First method - Obtainable by sniping the pilot, making the helicopter slowly hover to the ground undamaged. It only works 50% of the time; the rest of the time the Police Maverick will spin rapidly around in circles, hitting the ground with fierce force and exploding. Also obtainable by an even more frustrating process in which the helicopter is disabled at a low enough altitude that all occupants live, and then the Police Maverick is pushed into a safehouse Parking Spot. That method probably works less often than the previous. Other than that, one can only fly the Police Maverick in multiplayer Race Mode.
  • Second method - Go to middle of the pond in Middle Park and snipe people until a three star wanted level is obtained. When the helicopter appears, shoot the pilot from the side. If it falls in shallow water, the player may obtain it. Since the Police Officers will not try to swim to the island to go after the player, they will have plenty of chances to get the Police Maverick before the Annihilator appears.

If the player manages to lure the helicopter over the pond in Middle Park, it will be easier to obtain, although the helicopter must have an open space and the water must be shallow.

The Ballad of Gay Tony

Singleplayer
  • During the mission "Not So Fast", one can steal a Police Maverick when the player has to climb back on to the roof to get back in Yusuf's Buzzard by waiting a few seconds, when a Police Maverick will land on the roof.
Multiplayer

Grand Theft Auto V and Online

Police Maverick

Air Ambulance

Grand Theft Auto Online

Police Maverick

  • Sometimes found in the same locations mentioned above.
    • Will spawn more frequently when a player that is close to these locations has a 3-star wanted level or higher being pursued by Police Mavericks, as this will work as a spawn seed.
  • Spawns on top of Mission Row Police Station during the Clubhouse Contact Mission of P.O.W at this location.
  • Appears in the Planning Work: Vault Code and can be kept upon completion of the mission, although the steady control and camera features are no longer available.

Air Ambulance

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Rewards

Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online

  • The Police Maverick gives the player a Sniper Rifle upon entry.

Trivia

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3D Universe

  • The Police Maverick is featured in Rockstar North's Manhunt 2 as one of the numerous unusable vehicles, bearing the VCPD's color scheme.
  • In GTA Vice City and GTA Liberty City Stories, while it is possible to spawn the slide-door Police Maverick that pursues the player, it will be invisible, and trying to enter it will crash the game, since the game will be looking for the missing door that does not exist on the helicopter. Even if it is controlled, it cannot be flown as pressing the "forward" key does nothing. It otherwise behaves like a normal helicopter, and it can be destroyed, either with the use of weapons or a cheat code. This is because, they are not supposed to be obtained.
  • In GTA Liberty City Stories, the Police Maverick uses the LOD of the controllable GTA Vice City Police Maverick, with decals and colours changed.
  • In GTA Vice City, the machine gun actually fires from the back rather than under the belly.
  • In GTA Vice City, the red light on the back of airborne Police Mavericks is dislocated, and remain in the same place as its predecessor.
  • Police Mavericks can be seen flying around without a wanted level. They are not solid and do not have any engine noise. They also can not be destroyed, and their rotors are static. In the PC Version of GTA San Andreas, this is not the case, and they can be shot down by the player using the minigun or other heavy arms (which instantly grants a 3 star wanted level). In GTA San Andreas, Police Mavericks are most commonly seen patrolling areas of Los Santos dominated by gang crime, including Grove Street and Idlewood. They can also be observed flying around airports, presumably to monitor incoming and outgoing flights.
  • In the beta version of GTA San Andreas, there were LSPD Police Mavericks.
  • GTA San Andreas is the only GTA game to date that lets the player turn on its powerful search light, but its direction can only be controlled in the PC version – in console versions, it moves in the opposite direction to the movement of the helicopter. The light can only be turned on at night by pressing Left Stick Button (Xbox) (Xbox), L3 (PlayStation) (PS2) or the horn button (by default: Caps-Lock or H) (PC).
    • This function is unavailable on the mobile version of GTA San Andreas, due to the action button being unavailable. However, if the player connects a gamepad to their device and presses the action/sub-mission button, the searchlight can be turned on.
    • This feature does not seem to work on the HD remaster ports of San Andreas as pressing either the action/sub-mission button does nothing.
  • If the player manages to steal the Police Maverick in GTA San Andreas while it is in flight, the helicopter will remain hostile. For example, if the player parks the helicopter and gets out, shots will be coming at the player from the underbelly of the helicopter from the ground; this is due to programming limitations.
  • In GTA San Andreas, the pilot, gunner and co-pilot are named "Jim", "Dave", "Ned", and "John" respectively. (Jim: There he is kill him, John! John: Why do I always do the fuckin' killing?!") and (John: Jim, you see anything? Jim: Over there!! shoot him!) And (Hey, I can see my house from here!) (Dave, will you shut the hell up? You, stop!!)[4].
  • In GTA San Andreas, the Police Maverick will not pursue the player in sand storms, likely due to poor visibility. If the player enters a sand storm or changes the weather via cheats, any pursuing Police Maverick will simply abandon the chase and fly away.
  • The mounted gun oddly bypasses any coding that would make the object/character invincible. For instance, it will damage the player even if the "Invincibility" cheat is activated. It also can damage a Rhino, despite it being very resistant to bullet-based weapons.
  • Despite a news article mentioning that the LCPD didn't acquire Helicopters until 2001, Police Mavericks appear in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, which is set in 1998.
  • In Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, one of the pilots is called "Jimmy". (Co-Pilot: Jimmy, can you keep this 'copter steady?").
  • In GTA Vice City, the Police Maverick that chases the player is invulnerable to any forms of weapons but very vulnerable to both the Rocket Launcher and Sniper Rifle. Unlike other vehicles that explode into a black object, the Police Maverick explodes into shard-like pieces. The destruction of the Police Maverick awards the player $250 and half wanted star.
  • In GTA San Andreas, saving and Loading a game at the Jefferson safehouse will usually cause a Police Maverick to spawn outside. A nearby gang member will usually flee on foot, even abandoning any vehicle they were driving. At night, the Police Maverick will use their searchlight to follow the gang member.

Grand Theft Auto V and Online

Artwork-CashAndCarry-ByLand-GTAV

One of the artworks of the Police Maverick. Note that it assumes the design of its real-life inspiration.

  • In one of the GTA V Artworks, the Police Maverick appears to assume the Eurocopter AS350B design, evidenced by the shorter rear doors and the different searchlight positioning, as well as a different livery, very different from the current one used by the vehicle in-game (excluding the "LSPD" on its underside, which remains the same).
  • In the first trailer, the Police Maverick was initially based on its GTA IV rendition with the current black and white scheme.
  • Unlike in GTA IV, Police Mavericks and Buzzards are never used by the LSPD during wanted levels, but only by NOOSE agents. Only the ones used during certain missions and those flying above Grove Street, Vinewood, and Davis are used by the LSPD.
    • Those spawning flying above the city will never chase the player while being wanted and will keep their scripted scenario, although the game will still mark them as active helicopters and will spot the player if they remain "identified" (i.e. not switching vehicles out of sight). If the player attempts to approach them while being wanted, the copilot will attack them with a Pistol.
  • Police Maverick officers may talk through the megaphone quotes like "LSPD, hands up" and "Stop right there". They sound more muffled than the quotes read from the LSPD Cruisers, possibly due to their height.
  • Due to the "Air Ambulance" only being a variant of the Police Maverick rather than a separate vehicle, it tends to spawn flying around the Bolingbroke Penitentiary instead of the regular Police Maverick.
  • While the Police Maverick is programmed to carry two people in the rear bay during regular gameplay, those that spawn during wanted levels and are deploying NOOSE officers on the ground will have two more appearing from behind the rear wall of the bay, as if the aircraft is capable of carrying six people.

Bugs/Glitches

3D Universe

  • If the player shoots down a Police Maverick and lowers their wanted level below three-star through cheat codes, the Police Maverick will fly away as if nothing happened. Police Mavericks that fly away are also invulnerable to any form of damage.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

  • If the player shoots down a pursuing Police Maverick and is busted or wasted near the same moment the Maverick explodes, they will sometimes automatically regain a 4 star wanted level if they respawn at a Police Station or Hospital in the vicinity of the wrecked Maverick.
  • If the player goes inside Phil Cassidy's hangar next to his home, the Police Maverick will suddenly fly away and despawn.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

  • If the player does a replay, then the Police Maverick will fly away after the replay is done or exited.
  • The AI-controlled Police Maverick may sometimes appear under the ground if using the Jetpack to shake the Maverick off multiple times.
  • If the player manages to steal the AI-controlled Police Maverick, land, and exit the helicopter, the helicopter will act like it's still controlled by the AI, albeit can't fly anymore. It will even deploy S.W.A.T. Team members if the player has more than 3 wanted stars.
    • Doing a replay whilst controlling the hijacked Police Maverick will cause CJ to be wasted.

HD Universe

Grand Theft Auto IV

  • Once Niko gets out of a Police Maverick, the helicopter will start flying away and fall once it is realized that there is no pilot. This is because the game still reads the helicopter as AI-controlled. This will no longer happen when the player goes back to the safe house from a considerable distance away from it. This also happens with the Annihilator if it is obtained with the same method.
    • Holding Y (Xbox)/Triangle (PlayStation) to shut off the engine will prevent this.
    • Leaving the helicopter very close to the ground and then pressing Left Trigger (LT) (Xbox)/L2 (PlayStation) immediately before pressing Y (Xbox)/Triangle (PlayStation) may hurt the player a bit, but the helicopter will not suffer this glitch, as it will not have enough time to ascend by itself.

Grand Theft Auto V

  • Sometimes, after a helicopter lands, the pilot will be alive (if the helicopter is still intact, but the engine is broken), it will be locked and the pilot remains in it, alive. Pointing a gun at him will make him flinch, although he will remain in the helicopter still. For example, the helicopter crashes into a suspect in a Jet, the helicopter might just stop working, but the pilot will stay in it and it will float down.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Grand Theft Auto III:
    \Grand Theft Auto III\text\american.gxt\HELI - Helicopter

    Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
    NPC Police Maverick:
    \Grand Theft Auto Vice City\text\american.gxt\HELI - Helicopter
    Regular Police Maverick:
    \Grand Theft Auto Vice City\text\american.gxt\POLMAV - Police Maverick
  2. 2.0 2.1 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PSP version)
    Used in all Helicopters in the game; Not displayed in the HUD:
    \PSP_GAME\USRDIR\TEXT\ENGLISH.GXT\HELI - Helicopter

    Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (PSP version)
    NPC VCPD Maverick:
    \PSP_GAME\USRDIR\TEXT\ENGLISH.GXT\CHOPPER - VCPD Maverick
    Regular VCPD Maverick:
    \PSP_GAME\USRDIR\TEXT\ENGLISH.GXT\POLMAV - VCPD Maverick
  3. As suggested by the .GXT files:

    AMERICAN.GXT text strings for the Helicopter (Escape), which is shared with Police Helicopter in GTA III, and used for the NPC Police Maverick in the next 3D Universe games.
  4. GTA San Andreas Police Quotes

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[ ve ]Vehicles in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Sports and muscle carsBanshee | Cheetah | Comet | Deluxo | Infernus | Phoenix | Polaris V8 | Sabre (Cholo | Turbo) | Stinger
Four-door carsAdmiral | Glendale | Greenwood | Oceanic | Perennial | Regina | Sentinel | Sentinel XS | Stretch | Washington
Two-door carsBlista Compact | Esperanto | Hermes (Cuban) | Idaho | Manana | Stallion | Virgo | Voodoo
SUVs, trucks and vansBenson | Bobcat | Boxville (Mr Whoopee) | Burrito | Flatbed | Gang Rancher | Landstalker | Linerunner | Mesa Grande | Moonbeam | Mule | Patriot | Pony | Rumpo | Sandking | Walton | Yankee
Public serviceCabbie | Coach | Securicar | Taxi | Trashmaster
Government and emergencyAmbulance | Barracks OL (Ammo Truck) | Enforcer | FBI Rancher | FBI Washington | Fire Truck | Rhino | VCPD Cheetah | VCPD Cruiser | VCPD WinterGreen
Fixed-wing aircraftBiplane | Skimmer
HelicoptersAir Ambulance | Armadillo | Hunter | Little Willie | Maverick | Sea Sparrow | Sparrow | VCN Maverick | VCPD Maverick
Bicycles and MotorcyclesBiker Angel | BMX | Faggio | Freeway | PCJ-600 | Quad | Sanchez | Streetfighter | Ventoso | WinterGreen
WatercraftBovver'64 | Coast Guard | Dinghy | Jetmax | Jetski | Marquis | Predator | Reefer | Rio | Speeder | Squallo | Tropic | Violator | Yola
MiscellaneousBaggage Handler | BF Injection | Bulldozer | Caddy | Domestobot | Forklift | Splitz-6 ATV
UncontrollableStatic Planes (Airtrain | Learjet) | VCPD Maverick (NPC)
BetaAmbassador | Coastguard Maverick | Top Fun | Unnamed Motorcycle
Category:Vehicles in GTA Vice City Stories | Vehicles by type | Special Vehicles in GTA Vice City Stories | Beta Vehicles
[ ve ]Vehicles in Grand Theft Auto IV and its episodes
Sports cars and supercarsBanshee | Bullet GT | Comet | Coquette | F620 | Feltzer | Infernus | Sultan RS | SuperGT | Turismo
Muscle cars and vintageBucanneer | Dukes | Faction | Manana | Peyote | Ruiner | Sabre (Beater) | Sabre GT | Stallion | Tampa | Vigero | Virgo | Voodoo
Four-door carsAdmiral | Buffalo | Chavos | Cognoscenti | DF8-90 | Dilettante | Emperor (Beater) | Esperanto (Roman's Taxi) | Feroci (FlyUS) | Hakumai | Ingot | Intruder | Lokus | Marbelle | Merit | Oracle | Pinnacle | PMP 600 | Premier | Presidente | Primo | Regina | Schafter (Second Gen | Stretch E) | Solair | Stratum | Stretch | Sultan | Super Diamond | Vincent | Washington | Willard
Two-door carsBlista Compact | Fortune | Futo | Rhapsody | Sentinel (XS) | Super Drop Diamond | Uranus
SUVs, pick-ups, and vansBobcat | Cavalcade (FXT) | Contender | Habanero | Huntley Sport | Landstalker | Minivan | Moonbeam | Patriot | Perennial (FlyUS) | Rancher | Rebla | Serrano | Slamvan
Commercial & industrialBenson | Biff | Boxville (Mr Tasty) | Burrito (Laundromat | Gang) | Flatbed | Mule | Packer | Phantom | Pony | Securicar | Speedo | Steed | Tow Truck | Yankee
Public serviceBus | Cabby | Cablecar | Subway Car | Taxi (Merit-based) | Trashmaster
Government and emergencyAmbulance | APC | Enforcer | FIB Buffalo | Fire Truck | NOOSE Cruiser | NOOSE Patriot | Police Bike | Police Buffalo | Police Cruiser | Police Patrol | Police Stinger | Police Stockade | Prison Bus
MotorcyclesAkuma | Angel | Bati 800 (Custom) | Daemon | Diabolus | Double T (Custom) | Faggio (Old) | Freeway | Hakuchou (Custom) | Hellfury | Hexer | Innovation | Lycan | Nightblade | NRG 900 | PCJ 600 | Revenant | Sanchez | Vader | Wayfarer | Wolfsbane | Zombie
BoatsBlade | Dinghy | Floater | Jetmax | Marquis | Predator | Reefer | Smuggler | Squalo | Tropic | Tug
HelicoptersAnnihilator | Buzzard | Helitours Maverick | Maverick | Police Maverick | Skylift | Swift
MiscellaneousAirtug | Caddy | Forklift | Ogham | Parachute | Ripley | Romero | Window Cleaning Platform
UncontrollableStatic Planes (Ogham)
BetaAndromada | Brickade | Coach | Dodo | Fighter | NOOSE Boxville | Previon | Rhino | Shamal
The Lost and Damned only. | The Ballad of Gay Tony only. | TLAD and TBOGT only. | Different versions between GTA IV and TBOGT.
Vehicles in GTA IV (Category) | Vehicles in The Lost and Damned (Category) | Vehicles in The Ballad of Gay Tony (Category) | Vehicle Brands | Vehicles by type | Special Vehicles | Beta Vehicles | Drivetrains in GTA IV | Engines
[ ve ]Vehicles in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
Sports, muscle and
tuner cars
500 XLR8 | Banshee | Cityscape | Comet | Dukes | Infernus | MK GT9 | Resolution X | Sabre GT | Stallion | Style SR | Sultan | Turismo
CarsAdmiral | Blista | Buccaneer | Chavos | Cognoscenti | Hellenbach | Ingot | Limo | Manana | Perennial | Peyote | Voodoo
SUVs, trucks and vansAngel | Alphamail | Bobcat | Burrito | Cavalcade | Cavalcade FXT | Dragon Wagon | Fists | Flatbed | Gumshoe | Patriot | Recovery | Tanker | Yankee
Public serviceBus | Cabbie | Subway Car
Government and emergencyAmbulance | FIB Rancher | Fire Truck | NOOSE Enforcer | Police Patrol | Rhino
MotorcyclesAngel | Chopper | NRG 900 | Sanchez
WatercraftCoast Guard Dinghy | Coast Guard Launch | Cruiser | Destroyer | Dinghy | Jetmax | Reefer | Wet Ski | Zhouboat
MiscellaneousBaggage Handler | Bulldozer | Formula R | Go Kart | Hearse
Aircraft
HelicoptersDefender | Helitours Maverick | Police Maverick | Sparrow
Static (Non-Controllable)Airtrain | Ogham
Beta VehiclesCoquette | Triad Burrito
Category:Vehicles in GTA Chinatown Wars | Vehicles in GTA Chinatown Wars | Vehicles by type | Special Vehicles | Beta Vehicles | Manufacturers
[ ve ]Vehicles in Grand Theft Auto V
SuperAdder | Bullet | Cheetah | Entity XF | Infernus | Osiris | T20 | Turismo R | Vacca | Voltic | Zentorno
Sports9F (Cabrio) | Alpha | Banshee | Blista Compact (Go Go Monkey Blista) | Buffalo (S (Sprunk)) | Carbonizzare | Comet | Coquette | Elegy RH8 | Feltzer | Furore GT | Fusilade | Futo | Jester (Racecar) | Massacro (Racecar) | Penumbra | Rapid GT (Convertible) | Schwartzer | Sultan | Surano
MuscleBlade | Buccaneer | Chino | Coquette BlackFin | Dominator (Pisswasser) | Dukes (Duke O'Death) | Gauntlet (Redwood) | Hotknife | Phoenix | Picador | Rat-Loader (Rat-Truck) | Ruiner | Sabre Turbo | Slamvan | Stallion (Burger Shot) | Vigero | Virgo | Voodoo
Sports ClassicsCoquette Classic | JB 700 | Manana | Monroe | Peyote | Pigalle | Roosevelt | Stinger | Stirling GT | Tornado (Beater | Mariachi) | Z-Type
SedansAsea (North Yankton) | Asterope | Emperor (Beater | North Yankton) | Fugitive | Glendale | Ingot | Intruder | Premier | Primo | Regina | Schafter | Stanier | Stratum | Super Diamond | Surge | Tailgater | Warrener | Washington (Romero Hearse | Stretch)
CompactsBlista | Dilettante (Security) | Issi | Panto | Prairie | Rhapsody
CoupesCognoscenti Cabrio | Exemplar | F620 | Felon (GT) | Jackal | Oracle (XS) | Sentinel (XS) | Windsor | Zion (Cabrio)
SUVsBaller | BeeJay XL | Cavalcade | Dubsta | FQ 2 | Granger | Gresley | Habanero | Huntley S | Landstalker | Mesa (North Yankton) | Patriot | Radius | Rocoto | Seminole | Serrano
VansBison (The Mighty Bush | McGill-Olsen) | Bobcat XL | Boxville (Utility | Humane Labs | Taco Van) | Burrito (Bugstars | Civilian | McGill Olsen | North Yankton | Gang) | Camper | Journey | Minivan | Pony (SOTW) | Rumpo (Deludamol | Paradise) | Speedo (Clown Van) | Surfer (Beater) | Youga
Utility
VehiclesAirtug | Caddy (Civilian) | Docktug | Fieldmaster (North Yankton) | Forklift | Lawn Mower | Ripley | Sadler (North Yankton) | Scrap Truck | Towtruck (Yankee-based variant) | Tractor | Utility Truck (AWP | Contender-based)
TrailersArmy Trailer (Civilian | Extended) | Boat Trailer (Large) | Prop Trailer | Trailer (Rake | Small (Utility | Generator) | Flatbed | Logs | Articulated (Container | Commercial | Big Goods | Fame or Shame) | Dock | Car carrier (Pack Man)| Tanker (RON | Army))
CommercialBenson | Biff | Hauler | Mule | Packer | Phantom | Pounder | Stockade (Bobcat Security)
IndustrialCutter | Dock Handler | Dozer | Dump | Flatbed | Mixer | Rubble | Tipper
ServiceBus (Airport) | Dashound | Rental Shuttle Bus (Tourbus) | Taxi | Trashmaster
EmergencyAmbulance | FIB (Buffalo) | Fire Truck | Lifeguard | Park Ranger | Police Bike | Police Cruiser (Interceptor | Buffalo) | Police Rancher | Police Riot | Police Roadcruiser | Police Prison Bus | Police Transporter | Sheriff Cruiser | Sheriff SUV | Unmarked Cruiser
MilitaryBarracks (Semi) | Crusader | Rhino Tank
MotorcyclesAkuma | Bagger | Bati 801 (RR) | Carbon RS | Daemon | Double T | Faggio | Hakuchou | Hexer | Innovation | Nemesis | PCJ-600 | Ruffian | Sanchez (Livery) | Sovereign | Thrust | Vader | Vindicator
HelicoptersBuzzard (Attack Chopper) | Cargobob (Jetsam | TPI) | Frogger (FIB/TPI) | Maverick | Police Maverick (Air Ambulance) | Skylift | Swift (Deluxe)
PlanesAtomic Blimp | Besra | Cargo Plane | Cuban 800 | Dodo | Duster | Jet | Luxor (Deluxe) | Mallard | Mammatus | Miljet | P-996 LAZER | Shamal | Titan | Velum | Vestra | Xero Blimp
BoatsDinghy ((2-seater)) | Jetmax | Kraken | Marquis | Police Predator | Seashark (Lifeguard) | Speeder | Squalo | Submersible | Suntrap | Toro | Tropic
Off-RoadBifta | Blazer (Hot Rod | Lifeguard) | Bodhi | Brawler | Dubsta 6x6 | Dune Buggy (Space Docker) | Duneloader | Injection | Kalahari | Liberator | Marshall | Mesa | Rancher XL (North Yankton) | Rebel (Rusty) | Sandking XL (SWB)
CyclesBMX | Cruiser | Endurex Race Bike | Fixter | Scorcher | Tri-Cycles Race Bike | Whippet Race Bike
TrainsCable Car | Freight Train (Freight Car | Freight Container 1 | Freight Container 2 | Freight Grain | Tanker Car) | Metrotrain
Static (Non-Controllable)Daisy Lee | Dignity | Octopus | Olifantus | Ocean Motion | Scrap Handler | SS Bulker | The Sea Urchin | UFOs
Beta VehiclesAdmiral | Autogyro | Baletrailer | Bobcat | Casco | Cavalcade FXT | Chavos | Combine Harvester | CS2000 | Digger | DF8-90 | Esperanto | Feroci | FIB ("Old" variant) | Frogger (with FIB livery) | Freeway | Furzen | Graintrailer | Hakumai | Hellfury | Horse | Hunter | Kart | Lokus | Majestic |Marbelle | Merit | Mule (Ramp-door) | Mr Tasty | Napalm | Pinnacle | PMP 600 | Police Fugitive | Presidente | Previon | RC Bandito | Sabre | Scamp | Seinove | Skimmer | Skivvy | Solair | Squaddie | Steed | Speedo variants | Unknown Stockade variant | SuperGT | SXR | Trawler | Trial | Unknown high-wing plane | Unknown private jet | Uranus | Vulkan | Wayfarer | Willard | Winky | Yankee
Vehicles in GTA V (Category) | Vehicle Brands | Vehicles by type | Special Vehicles | Beta Vehicles | Manufacturers | Vehicle classes | Vehicle Features

DLC Content Vehicles
Added as part of the following GTA Online content updates:
Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 | Ill-Gotten Gains Part 1 | Heists | Festive Surprise | The Last Team Standing Update | The San Andreas Flight School Update | The Independence Day Special | The "I'm Not a Hipster" Update | The High Life Update | The Business Update | The Valentine's Day Massacre Special | Beach Bum Update


Other Vehicles
Enhanced Version | Special/Collector's Edition and Pre-Order Bonus | Social Club
[ ve ]Vehicles in Grand Theft Auto Online
Super811 | Adder | Autarch | Banshee 900R | Bullet | Champion | Cheetah | Cyclone (II) | Deveste Eight | Emerus | Entity XF (MT | XXR) | ETR1 | FMJ | Furia | GP1 | Ignus (Weaponized) | Infernus | Itali GTB (Custom) | Krieger | LM87 | Nero (Custom) | Osiris | Penetrator | RE-7B | Reaper | S80RR | SC1 | Scramjet | Sultan RS | T20 | Taipan | Tigon | Tempesta | Tezeract | Thrax | Torero XO | Turismo Omaggio | Turismo R | Tyrant | Tyrus | Vacca | Vagner | Vigilante | Virtue | Visione | Voltic (Rocket) | X80 Proto | XA-21 | Zeno | Zentorno | Zorrusso
Sports300R | 8F Drafter | 9F (Cabrio | 10F (Widebody)) | Alpha | Banshee | Bestia GTS | Blista Compact (Go Go Monkey) | Buffalo (S (Sprunk)) | Calico GTF | Carbonizzare | Comet (Retro Custom (Safari) | S2 (Cabrio) | SR) | Coquette (D10) | Corsita | Cypher | Drift Tampa | Elegy RH8 (Retro Custom) | Euros | Feltzer | Flash GT | Furore GT | Fusilade | Futo (GTX) | GB200 | Growler | Hotring Everon | Hotring Hellfire | Hotring Sabre | Imorgon | Issi Sport | Itali GTO | Itali GTO Stinger TT | Itali RSX | Jester (Classic | Racecar | RR) | Jugular | Khamelion | Komoda | Kuruma (Armored) | La Coureuse | Locust | Lynx | Massacro (Racecar) | Neo | Neon | Omnis (e-GT) | Panthere | Paragon R (Armored) | Pariah | Penumbra (FF) | Raiden | Rapid GT (Convertible) | Raptor | Remus | Revolter | RT3000 | Ruston | S95 | Seven-70 | Schafter LWB | Schafter V12 | Schlagen GT | Schwartzer | Sentinel Classic (Widebody) | SM722 | Specter (Custom) | Streiter | Sugoi | Sultan (Classic (RS)) | Surano | Tropos Rallye | V-STR | Verlierer | Vectre | Veto (Classic) | ZR350 | ZR380 (Apocalypse | Future Shock | Nightmare)
MuscleArbiter GT | Blade | Broadway | Brigham | Buccaneer (Custom | Lurcher) | Buffalo EVX | Buffalo STX | Chino (Custom) | Clique (Wagon) | Coquette BlackFin | Deviant | Dominator (ASP | Apocalypse | Future Shock | GT | GTX | GTT | Nightmare | Pisswasser) | Dukes (Beater | Duke O'Death) | Ellie | Eudora | Faction (Custom (Donk)) | Gauntlet (Classic (Custom)) | Hellfire | Redwood) | Greenwood | Hermes | Hotknife | Hustler | Impaler (Apocalypse | Future Shock | LX | Nightmare) | Imperator (Apocalypse | Future Shock | Nightmare) | Manana Custom | Moonbeam (Custom) | Nightshade | Peyote Gasser | Phoenix | Picador | Rat-Truck (Rat-Loader) | Ruiner (2000 (Wreck) | ZZ-8) | Sabre Turbo (Custom) | Slamvan (Apocalypse | Custom | Future Shock | Lost | Nightmare) | Stallion (Burger Shot) | Tahoma Coupe | Tampa (Weaponized) | Tulip (M-100) | Vamos | Vigero (ZX (Convertible) ) | Virgo | Virgo Classic (Custom) | Voodoo (Custom) | Weevil Custom | Yosemite (Drift)
Sports Classics190z | Ardent | Casco | Cheburek | Cheetah Classic | Coquette Classic | Deluxo | Dynasty | Fagaloa | GT500 | Infernus Classic | JB 700 (W) | Mamba | Manana | Michelli GT | Monroe | Nebula Turbo | Peyote (Custom) | Pigalle | Rapid GT Classic | Retinue (Mk II) | Roosevelt (Fränken Stange | Valor) | Savestra | Stinger (GT) | Stirling GT | Stromberg | Swinger | Toreador | Torero | Tornado (Beater | Mariachi | Custom | Rat Rod) | Turismo Classic | Viseris | Z-Type | Zion Classic
SedansAsea (Snow) | Asterope (GZ) | Cinquemila | Cognoscenti (Armored | 55 (Armored)) | Deity | Emperor (Beater | Snow) | Fugitive | Glendale (Custom) | Impaler SZ | Ingot | Intruder | Premier | Primo (Custom) | Regina | Rhinehart | Schafter (LWB (Armored) | V12 (Armored) | Turreted Limo ) | Stafford | Stanier | Stratum | Super Diamond | Surge | Tailgater (S) | Warrener (HKR) | Washington (Romero Hearse | Stretch)
CompactsAsbo | Blista (Kanjo) | Brioso R/A (300 (Widebody) ) | Club | Dilettante (Security) | Issi (Classic (Apocalypse | Future Shock | Nightmare)) | Panto | Prairie | Rhapsody | Weevil
CoupesCognoscenti Cabrio | Exemplar | F620 | Felon (GT) | FR36 | Jackal | Kanjo SJ | Oracle (XS) | Previon | Postlude | Sentinel (XS) | Windsor (Drop) | Zion (Cabrio)
SUVsAleutian | Astron (Custom) | Baller (LE (Armored) | LE LWB (Armored | ST (ST-D))) | BeeJay XL | Cavalcade (XL) | Contender| Dorado | Dubsta (Custom) | FQ 2 | Granger (3600LX) | Gresley | Habanero | Huntley S | I-Wagen | Issi Rally | Jubilee | Landstalker (XL) | Mesa | Novak | Patriot (Stretch) | Radius | Rebla GTS | Rocoto | Seminole (Frontier) | Serrano | Squaddie | Toros | Vivanite | XLS (Armored)
VansBison (The Mighty Bush | McGill-Olsen) | Bobcat XL | Boxville (Armored | Utility | Humane Labs | LSDS | PostOP | Taco Van) | Burrito (Bugstars | Civilian | McGill Olsen | Gang (Custom) | Snow) | Camper | Journey (II) | Minivan (Custom) | Pony (Smoke On The Water) | Rumpo (Custom | Deludamol | Paradise) | Speedo (Clown Van | Custom (Personal Vehicle)) | Surfer (Beater | Custom) | Youga (Classic (4x4 | Custom))
Utility
VehiclesAirtug | Caddy (Civilian | Bunker) | Docktug | Fieldmaster | Forklift | Lawn Mower | Ripley | Sadler (Snow) | Scrap Truck | Slamtruck | Tractor | Towtruck (Beater) | Utility Truck (AWP | Contender-based)
TrailersBoat Trailer (Dinghy | Seasharks) | Graintrailer | Mobile Operations Center | Trailer (Rake | Small (Utility | Generator) | Flatbed | Logs | Articulated (Big Goods | Container | Commercial | Fame or Shame | Gunrunning | Happy Holidays Hauler | LS Panic) | Dock | Car carrier | Tanker (RON | Army | Heist))
CommercialBenson (Cluckin' Bell) | Biff | Cerberus (Apocalypse | Future Shock | Nightmare) | Hauler (Custom) | Mule (Ramp-door | Heist | Custom | Passenger) | Packer | Phantom (Custom | Festive | Wedge) | Pounder (Custom) | Stockade | Terrorbyte
IndustrialDock Handler | Dozer | Dump | Flatbed | Guardian | Mixer | Rubble | Tipper
ServiceBrickade (6x6 | Dune) | Bus (Airport) | Dashound | Festival Bus | Rental Shuttle Bus (Tourbus) | Taxi | Trashmaster (Heist) | Wastelander
EmergencyAmbulance | FIB (Buffalo) | Fire Truck | Gauntlet Interceptor | Lifeguard | Park Ranger | Police Bike | Police Cruiser (Interceptor | Stanier LE | Unmarked) | Police Riot | Prison Bus | Police Transporter | RCV | Sheriff Cruiser | Sheriff SUV
MilitaryAnti-Aircraft Trailer | APC | Barracks (Semi | Heist) | Barrage | Chernobog | Crusader | Half-track | Invade and Persuade Tank | Rhino Tank | Scarab (Apocalypse | Future Shock | Nightmare) | Thruster | TM-02 Khanjali | Vetir
MotorcyclesAkuma | Avarus (Sanctus) | Bagger | Bati 801 (RR) | BF400 | Carbon RS | Chimera | Cliffhanger | Daemon (Gang-less) | Defiler | Diabolus (Custom) | Double T | Enduro | Esskey | Faggio (Mod | Sport) | FCR 1000 (Custom) | Gargoyle (Apocalypse | Future Shock | Nightmare) | Hakuchou (Drag) | Hexer | Innovation | Lectro | Nemesis | Nightblade | Oppressor (Mk II) | PCJ-600 | Powersurge | Rampant Rocket | Reever | Ruffian | Sanchez (Livery | Manchez (Scout (C))) | Shinobi | Shotaro | Sovereign | Stryder | Thrust | Vader | Vindicator | Vortex | Wolfsbane (Rat Bike) | Zombie Chopper (Bobber)
HelicoptersAkula | Annihilator (Stealth) | Buzzard (Attack Chopper) | Cargobob (Jetsam | Drop Zone) | Conada (Weaponized) | FH-1 Hunter | Frogger (FIB) | Havok | Maverick (Police Maverick (Air Ambulance)) | Savage | Sparrow (Sea) | Skylift | SuperVolito (Carbon) | Swift (Deluxe) | Valkyrie (MOD.0) | Volatus
PlanesAlpha-Z1 | Avenger (Prop | Upgraded (Prop)) | B-11 Strikeforce | Besra | Blimp | Cargo Plane (Unmarked) | Cuban 800 | Dodo | Duster | F-160 Raiju | Howard NX-25 | Hydra | LF-22 Starling | Mallard | Mammatus | Miljet | Mogul | Nimbus | P-45 Nokota | P-996 LAZER | Pyro | RM-10 Bombushka | RO-86 Alkonost | Rogue | Seabreeze | Shamal (Luxor (Deluxe)) | Streamer216 | Titan | Tula | Ultralight | V-65 Molotok | Velum (5-Seater) | Vestra | Volatol
BoatsAvisa | Dinghy (Heist | Yacht | Weaponized) | Jetmax | Kosatka | Kraken | Kurtz 31 Patrol Boat | Longfin | Marquis | Police Predator | Seashark (Lifeguard | Yacht) | Speeder (Yacht) | Squalo | Submersible | Suntrap | Toro (Yacht) | Tropic (Yacht) | Tug
Off-RoadBifta | Blazer (Aqua | Hot Rod | Lifeguard | Street) | Bodhi | Boor | Brawler | Bruiser (Apocalypse | Future Shock | Nightmare) | Brutus (Apocalypse | Future Shock | Nightmare) | Caracara (4x4) | Desert Raid | Draugur | Dubsta 6x6 | Dune Buggy (FAV | Ramp Buggy | Space Docker) | Duneloader | Everon | Freecrawler | Hellion | Injection | Insurgent (Pick-Up (Custom)) | Kalahari | Kamacho | Liberator | Marshall | Menacer | Mesa | MonstroCiti | Nightshark | Outlaw | Patriot Mil-Spec | Rancher XL | Ratel | RC Bandito | Rebel (Rusty | Technical (Aqua | Custom)) | Riata | Sandking XL (SWB) | Sasquatch (Apocalypse | Future Shock | Nightmare) | Terminus | Trophy Truck | Vagrant | Verus | Walton L35 | Winky | Yosemite Rancher | Zhaba
CyclesBMX | Cruiser | Endurex Race Bike | Inductor (Junk Energy) | Scorcher | Tri-Cycles Race Bike | Whippet Race Bike
TrainsFreight Train (Cluckin' Bell Farm Raid | Freight Car | Freight Car 2 | Freight Container 1 | Freight Container 2 | Freight Grain | Tanker Car) | Metrotrain
Open WheelBR8 | DR1 | PR4 | R88
Static (Non-Controllable)Cutter | Daisy Lee | Dignity | Galaxy Super Yacht (Aquarius, Pisces, Orion) | HODL | HSW Mule | Narcosub | Jet | La'oub Princess | LSCM Mule | Mechanic Mule | Octopus | Olifantus | Ocean Motion | Ramius | SS Bulker | S.S. Daddy's Boy | Tattoo Parlor Boxville | The Sea Urchin | UFOs | USS Luxington ATT-16 | Wakebreaker
Beta VehiclesBaletrailer | Bati 801 Police Variant | Cargobob Variant | Caracara Police Variant | Cognoscenti Arena War Variant | Greenwood Police Variant | Police Bike Variant | Police Transporter Variant | Police Cruiser | Panto Police Variant | Police Buffalo Variant | Riata Police Variant | Vamos Arena War Variant | Verlierer Variant | Wolfsbane Variant | Zoku
Vehicles in GTA Online (Category) | Vehicle Brands | Vehicles by type | Special Vehicles | Beta Vehicles | Manufacturers | Vehicle Classes | Vehicle Features

DLC Content Vehicles
The Chop Shop | San Andreas Mercenaries | Los Santos Drug Wars | The Criminal Enterprises | The Contract | Los Santos Tuners | The Cayo Perico Heist | Los Santos Summer Special | The Diamond Casino Heist | The Diamond Casino & Resort | Arena War | After Hours | Southern San Andreas Super Sport Series | The Doomsday Heist | Smuggler's Run | Gunrunning | Cunning Stunts: Special Vehicle Circuit | Import/Export | Bikers | Cunning Stunts | Further Adventures in Finance and Felony | Lowriders: Custom Classics | Be My Valentine | January 2016 Update | Festive Surprise 2015 | Executives and Other Criminals | Halloween Surprise | Lowriders | Freemode Events Update | Ill-Gotten Gains Part 2 | Ill-Gotten Gains Part 1 | Heists | Festive Surprise | The Last Team Standing Update | The San Andreas Flight School Update | The Independence Day Special | The "I'm Not a Hipster" Update | The High Life Update | The Business Update | The Valentine's Day Massacre Special | Holiday Gifts | Beach Bum Update


Other Vehicles
Expanded & Enhanced Version | Enhanced Version | Special/Collector's Edition and Pre-Order Bonus | Social Club
[ ve ]Vehicles in Grand Theft Auto VI
Returning vehiclesBaller | Banshee | Bison | Blazer | Bobcat XL | Buccaneer (Custom) | Buffalo (Police | STX) | Caracara 4x4 | Carbonizzare | Cheetah Classic | Chino | Comet Retro Custom | Coquette D10 | Cypher | Dodo | Dominator (ASP) | Dubsta | Elegy Retro Custom | Furia | Futo | Gauntlet Classic Custom | Gauntlet Hellfire (Interceptor) | Granger 3600LX | Hellion | Jet | Jubilee | Jugular | Landstalker XL | Marquis | Maverick (Police) | Nimbus | Outlaw | Packer | Penumbra | Phantom Custom | Phoenix | Police Cruiser ("interceptor") | Primo Custom | Ruiner | Rubble | Rumpo | Sanchez | Sandking XL | Schafter V12 | Sea Sparrow | Speedo | Stratum | Sultan | SuperVolito | Tailgater | Towtruck (Yankee-based) | Tulip | Verus | Youga Classic | Zorrusso
New vehicles
Sports & super carsLamborghini Aventador-inspired sports car
Sedans & coupesPMP 700 | Tulip M-100 donked-out car | Ford Panther platform-inspired donked-out car | Ford Panther platform-inspired sedan | Second generation Audi S7-inspired car | Second generation Chevrolet Bel Air-inspired car | Third generation Infiniti Q45-inspired car | Tenth generation Chevrolet Impala-inspired car | Sixth generation Buick Skylark-inspired car
Muscle carsFirst generation Ford Mustang-inspired car | First generation Mercury Cougar-inspired car | Vapid ute
Compact carsChevrolet Sonic-inspired car
SUVs & station wagonsSecond generation Ford Explorer-inspired SUV | Fifth generation Ford Explorer-inspired SUV | Audi Q7-inspired SUV
Pickups & off-roadFifth generation Dodge Ram-inspired pickup truck | Bravado pickup truck | Swamp buggy | Caracara 4x4 monster truck | Sixth generation Ford F-Series-inspired flatbed truck | Hellion 4-door truck
MotorcyclesCarbon RS customized motorcycle | Sovereign customized motorcycle
Emergency, rescue & governmentFord Explorer Sport Trac-inspired lifeguard truck | Ford Panther platform-inspired police car | Ford Police Interceptor Utility-inspired police SUV | Buffalo STX police car | Coast guard boat
Trucks & vansChevrolet Express-inspired shuttle bus | New Flyer Xcelsior-inspired bus | Third generation Ram ProMaster-inspired van | Isuzu Elf-inspired truck | Fifth generation Chrysler Town & Country-inspired minivan
TrailersPup trailer | Boat trailer
BoatsBow rider | Catamaran power boat | Catamaran yacht | Fanboat | Power boat | Speedboat | Yamaha WaveRunner-inspired jet ski | Lake freighter (large) | Lake freighter (small) | Yacht (large) | Yacht (medium) | Yacht (small)
Planes & blimpsTethered Aerostat Radar System-inspired aircraft
Vehicles in GTA VI (Category) | Vehicle Brands | Vehicles by type | Special Vehicles | Beta Vehicles | Manufacturers | Vehicle classes | Vehicle Features