Dwight is named after Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States, who was previously a five-star general in the US army during World War II. The Cars Toons episode Air Mater introduced elements of Planes, including Propwash Junction, Dusty's hometown; [1] Skipper, his mentor; and Sparky, Skipper's assistant. Mater drops an allusion to Planes at the end of the short as he says that "They oughta make a whole movie about planes" and looks directly at the camera, presumably breaking the fourth wall. He is seen in many shots of the racers throughout the movie, including in the pit row at John F. Kennedy International Airport. When Dusty is broken and needs repairs, Arturo gives him supplies. Forklift commentator Roper (Sinbad) visits Dusty the next day to tell him that one of the racers, Fonzarelli, has been disqualified for using illegal fuel, putting Dusty in the race. Skipper finds Dusty and tries to talk him out of racing, due to the fact that he wasn't built to race, but Dusty insists that he wants to prove that he is more than just a crop duster. This convinces Skipper to train him. They spend some time together practicing, which starts out awful. Although Dusty starts improving, it goes sour when Skipper tries to get him to fly above 1000 feet. Dusty gets dizzy when he looks down, and confesses that he is afraid of heights. Skipper is baffled, but they continue practicing anyway.

Inside Flysenhower's hangar, Dusty sees the Jolly Wrenches Wall of Fame. However, he notices that Skipper had only flown one mission in World War Two, contrary to the many stories he had told Dusty earlier. He also strangely appears in Sun Wing's tent when Dusty was commenting about Ishani's propeller while in the pit row at John F. Kennedy International Airport. However, he does not appear in there again after that. voice unknown) Jan Kowalski is a racing competitor in the Wings Around the Globe racing competition.

When Dusty explains to Skipper about wanting to prove of being more than just a crop duster, one of the Cars 2 Porto Corsa vintage artworks can be seen on the wall. Dane Cook as Dusty Crophopper, a crop duster. [11] [12] [13] Jon Cryer was originally cast, but dropped out. [14] He was inspired by the Air Tractor AT-502, Cessna, and the PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader. [15] Priyanka Chopra as Ishani, [21] India's best plane racer and Dusty's love interest. [22] She is based on the AeroCad AeroCanard. [23] He is seen in many shots of the racers throughout the movie. He is strangely not seen in the Wings Around the Globe pit row at John F. Kennedy International Airport despite his tent appearing there, although it could be that he was somewhere else at the time. When Dusty is broken and needs repairs, Van Der Bird gives him supplies. When Dusty and Ripslinger are talking to each other at the pit row in New York, Little King is seen behind Dusty. When Dusty explains to the racers about El Chupacabra, Little King is in his tent. However, it could be that Little King drove to his tent during the close-ups of El Chu.

Scandinavian racer Gunnar Viking started out as an air ambulance. When a sports reporter noticed his speedy flying times, he traded his sirens for racing stripes. [80]

Planes takes on some of Pixar's traditions. Like both of the installments of the Cars franchise, it features reporters of the Racing Sports Network covering its sportive event. It also includes a cameo of John Ratzenberger, who has had a voicing role in all of Pixar's films. This is the first Disneytoon film to be a successor to a Pixar film. Previous productions focused on mainly Disney properties. Danny Mann as Sparky, a forklift. Danny also plays Sky Cam 1, a red helicopter filming the race over Germany. In the United Kingdom version, he is voiced by Barney Harwood. The name "Van Der Bird" could be a possible reference to the Formula One driver Giedo van der Garde, who is also from the Netherlands.

In Planes, he appears as one of the racers of the Wings Around the Globe. He got disqualified in the Germany to India leg for flying too high in that race. Planes is rated PG by the MPAA "for some mild action and rude humor", making it the first film in the Cars franchise to get this rating. [77] It is also DisneyToon's second (and first theatrical) movie to get a PG rating, after Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch.

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In Planes, he sets the fastest time in the qualifier round for the Wings Around the Globe and competes in the rally. This is also the second Disneytoon film to be scored by Mark Mancina after Tarzan II. Ironically, Mancina previously composed the music scores for two Walt Disney Animation Studios films ( Tarzan and Brother Bear) and the two Disney live-action films Man of the House and The Haunted Mansion. Besides the Planes series, Disneytoon was considering making more spin-offs that would feature other vehicles like boats and trains prior to the studio's closure in 2018. [97] [98] John Lasseter said: "I kept thinking about—I'm a big train fanatic. I love trains. And I started thinking about trains, and boats and airplanes. And I kept wanting to have more and more of those type of characters. [...] It's one of the ideas, that there will be an ongoing series. It almost starts getting into this thing where we fall in love with these plane characters, we want to see more and more stories with them. And then you start doing other vehicles and stuff like that. Yeah. So it kind of is a bigger idea that can keep expanding." [99] Similar films [ ] James Seymour Brett was originally set to write the film's score, [41] but was replaced by Mark Mancina. [5] Release [ ] His racing number is actually different in some parts of the movie. The qualifier leaderboard and Yellow Bird's tent as well as his appearance in the Germany to India leg show his number as 17. In New York and on the leaderboard at the start of the China to Mexico leg, his number is 1.