I like the idea. The rebels do need to get some sort of air transport (Or have the ability to hi-jack a Lambda or Sentinel, that could work too). Though in both Force Unleashed (Not good on anything but the Wii btw) and SWBF2, they featured the LAAT and its counterpart, the MAAT (Multi altitude assault transport). Isn't this liable enough to use the L/MAAT in FS? If so, here is some pics of the MAAT: 

Just puttin this out there
Edit for Working images.