Star Wars: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Naboo N-1 Starfighter Ships
5. They Were Featured On-Screen In More Than Just The Phantom Menace
While the Naboo N-1 Starfighters are best known for their appearances in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, they went on to appear throughout the wider Star Wars saga across movies, TV series, books and more.
Most notably, a small fleet of Naboo Starfighters are seen in the opening frames of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, when they are escorting Senator Padme Amidala’s Royal Starship to Coruscant. An assassination attempt on the Queen’s life fails when a bomb kills her handmaiden acting as a decoy, with Padme and R2-D2 having flown in undercover on one of the escorting Naboo Starships.
N-1 Starships remained in Naboo service during the Clone Wars, with Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano training Senator Padme Amidala in starfighter combat using an all-chrome N-1 vehicle. After the climatic Battle of Endor, seen in Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, N-1 Starfighters flew in celebration after the destruction of the Galactic Empire’s second Death Star.
A Naboo N-1 Starfighter was also seen in the fleet led by Poe Dameron and Lando Calrissian during the Battle of Exegol in Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.