The A-wings of Phoenix Squadron play an important role in "Rebels" second season (2015–2016). "Rebels" producers used the A-wing in part because the ship was not used much in "Return of the Jedi" The fighter's presence in the cartoon was meant to show that different groups used different craft to fight the Empire. The series's episodes "The Holocrons of Fate" and "Twin Suns" also feature the two-seater RZ-1T trainer, a training spacecraft used by the rebels to train recruits. The RZ-1T also appears in the novel "Battlefront II: Inferno Squad".