Planes is the 2013 film that became the first theatrical spin-off from Pixar's Cars franchise.
The film follows Dusty Crophopper, a crop-dusting airplane that dreams of entering an international air race. Its world uses a vehicle-based society similar to Cars, with aircraft replacing the franchise's talking cars as the central characters.
Planes was produced by Disneytoon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Although it is connected to the Cars universe, it was not produced by Pixar. That distinction is why the film is best described as a spin-off of the Cars franchise rather than a Pixar feature.
Planes was followed by Planes: Fire & Rescue in 2014. The first film's competition, the Wings Across the Globe race, takes the story beyond Radiator Springs while retaining the franchise's vehicle-personality concept.