GTA fans apparently spare no expense or effort for their favorite game. In the U.S., someone spent hours using an airplane to draw a GTA 6 image in the sky.
The hype surrounding GTA 6 is slowly but surely reaching its peak a good two weeks before release. In many European cities—including GameStar’s hometown of Munich—publisher Take-Two has begun rolling out large-scale billboard advertising for the game. Fans are already chilling their drinks, dusting off their consoles, and rearranging their living rooms.
Some fans, however, apparently like to go the extra mile to express their love for Grand Theft Auto. In the U.S. state of Arkansas, an amateur pilot has now used his small plane to draw a huge GTA motif in the sky, a task that took hours of meticulous work. You can only see the whole thing with a flight tracker.
A Greeting from Leonida
Attentive flight tracker users noticed some interesting flight activity over Arkansas last Thursday (November 5, 2026). A small Cessna Skylane RG aircraft, which had taken off from Bentonville Airport at 11:29, appeared to be flying aimless circles over the town of Huntsville.
However, if you tracked the aircraft’s course over a longer period of time using tracking websites such as Flightradar or Flightaware, the turns slowly but surely formed a cool GTA-style motif: First a helicopter, then a palm tree, an alligator, a sports car, a woman in a bikini , and finally the “GTA VI” logo . Then the aircraft turned around and returned to its departure point in Bentonville.
Eight Hours in the Air
The entire operation lasted about eight hours—close to the maximum fuel capacity and flight time available for this type of aircraft. The flight path likely required a great deal of planning and piloting experience. On average, the aircraft flew at an altitude of 3,200 meters at a fairly leisurely speed of just over 200 km/h.
Since fans apparently recognized the pilot’s plan early on and shared it on social media, the flight with the registration number N1810R briefly became the most-tracked flight on Flightradar.
On Reddit, numerous users expressed their enthusiasm for the stunt. One user wrote, for example: “I love this person so damn much for this. It’s so incredibly cool.” And another user commented: “I’ve never opened Flightradar so fast!”
It is currently unknown whether the pilot was actually Benjamin McDaniel, to whom the Cessna is registered according to flight tracking data. Whoever is behind this, however, has earned the respect of the GTA community—and likely that of developer Rockstar as well—with this stunt. You can find more news about GTA 6 in the link box above.
