GTA 6’s Vice City Blimp Has Reached Florida — Spotted Over Miami

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Rockstar’s GTA 6 marketing has taken to the skies — literally. A full-size Goodyear blimp wrapped in pink-and-white “Vice City” livery has flown from Ohio down to Florida, and fresh sightings over Palm Beach County and Miami on October 13 and 14 have fans tracking it like a second launch countdown.

Quick answer: Goodyear’s Wingfoot Three blimp (N3A) has been repainted with pink-and-white “Vice City” GTA 6 livery and flown from its Akron, Ohio base to Florida. Spotted over Palm Beach County on Oct 13 and Miami on Oct 14, it is trackable on FlightAware — Rockstar’s latest real-world marketing stunt ahead of GTA 6’s Nov 19 launch.

Key takeaways

• The airship is Goodyear’s Wingfoot Three (registration N3A), a Zeppelin LZ N07-101, wrapped in black with pink-and-white “Vice City” script.
• It flew from the Goodyear Airdock in Akron, Ohio to North Carolina, then continued south toward Florida.
• On Oct 13 it was filmed over Palm Beach County, Florida; on Oct 14 sightings placed it over Miami.
• Anyone can follow it live by searching “N3A” on FlightAware.
• Neither Rockstar nor Goodyear has officially commented — the mystery is doing the marketing for them.

What is the GTA 6 Vice City blimp?

The airship is Goodyear’s Wingfoot Three, registration N3A — one of the company’s Zeppelin LZ N07-101 airships, a real working aircraft, not a prop. Photos first shared in the Goodyear Blimp Fan Club Facebook group show it wrapped in black with large pink-and-white “Vice City” script lettering along the hull, Goodyear logos and yellow tail fins marked N3A.

Goodyear operates only a handful of these airships worldwide, so a livery change is a deliberate, expensive decision. Aviation fans photographed the ship on the ground at Wingfoot Lake in Ohio before it lifted off, and the neon-pink “Vice City” styling — identical to GTA 6’s fictional Miami — left no doubt about what it is promoting.

Where did the blimp fly, and where is it now?

Wingfoot Three lifted off from the Goodyear Airdock at Wingfoot Lake in Akron, Ohio, and flew to Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina — FlightAware logged an 8:37 AM EDT departure for the roughly 343-mile, four-hour leg — then kept heading south. On Oct 13 it was filmed over Palm Beach County, Florida, and on Oct 14 sightings placed it over Miami.

The ship reportedly departed North Carolina with Pompano Beach, Florida as the next destination — home to Pompano Beach Airpark, Goodyear’s only permanent airship base in Florida, operating since 1979. These airships top out around 70 mph, so the trip south spans multiple days with overnight stops. The exact intermediate stops and the rest of the schedule have not been made public.

Can you track the Vice City blimp live?

Yes — search “N3A” on FlightAware, where the airship’s owner is listed as the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Watchers have been following each leg in real time as it crawls south at around 66 mph — no complete public schedule exists beyond the legs spotted so far: Ohio to North Carolina, then on toward Pompano Beach in Florida.

What was the reaction on social media?

Huge. An Oct 12 Instagram post showing the blimp’s livery drew 14,000 likes, with another pulling 8,900. Aviation spotters shared sightings as the ship crossed state lines, and Oct 13 brought a wave of Florida clips — including four separate Palm Beach County flyover videos from one local account, showing the blimp over Arden, a high-school football stadium at golden hour and West Palm Beach at sunset.

An aviation-focused Facebook page with 190,000 followers drew 1,200 likes and 71 comments on its blimp photos, with commenters swapping sighting locations and discussing its route — for a single flying billboard, that is serious organic reach.

What does the blimp mean for GTA 6’s marketing push?

It’s the latest escalation in Rockstar’s real-world blitz with 36 days to launch: a reported $975,000 glowing “Welcome to Vice City” sign on Miami’s Kaseya Center, a finished hand-painted mural in Brooklyn, a Dolphins-stadium takeover with “IN FOR VI” touchdown animations, and a Vice City-themed NBA game on Nov 18 — with the blimp tour pointing to a wider Florida campaign rolling out around Oct 15.

That timing lines up with Miami Beach’s promotional agreement, which reportedly passed on a narrow 4–3 vote in September and allows Rockstar to spend around $3 million on marketing in the city between Oct 15 and Dec 31. Miami journalist Joel Franco has cautioned that officials doubt the deals will be finalized in time — so the blimp, already flying, may be the campaign’s first visible piece. See our GTA 6’s $150 million marketing budget and Miami campaign piece for the full picture.

GTA 6’s real-world marketing blitz so far

What this means

The blimp is the clearest signal yet that Rockstar’s launch marketing is shifting from announcements to spectacle. With 36 days to go until GTA 6’s Nov 19 release, the studio is turning the real world into Vice City piece by piece — signs, stadiums, murals and now the sky itself. Watch the skies over South Florida this week: if the ship settles at Pompano Beach as reported, expect it over Miami events all the way to launch.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• RockstarINTEL — GTA 6 Goodyear Blimp On Its Way To Miami
• GTAVice.net — GTA 6 “Vice City” Goodyear Blimp Takes Flight
• GTA BOOM — How to Track the GTA 6 Vice City Branded Zeppelin
• indy100 — GTA 6 live blog (Oct 14 Miami sighting)
• TechNewsVision — Rockstar’s Massive Miami Takeover
• GameScreed — GTA 6 Marketing Campaign Set to Expand on October 15

Every claim above was verified against multiple independent reports (RockstarINTEL, GTAVice.net, GTA BOOM, TechNewsVision and GameScreed) and live social-media evidence — including Instagram posts of the blimp’s livery drawing up to 14,000 likes and Oct 13 Palm Beach County flyover videos — plus FlightAware tracking data for airship N3A as cited by GTA BOOM. Neither Rockstar nor Goodyear has issued an official statement; that silence is noted wherever claims depend on it. The Rockstar Newswire was checked on Oct 14, 2026 — no blimp announcement, with the studio’s latest GTA 6 post still the Sept 24 Vice City Collection pre-order notice.