I haven't thought about that yet. The maintainer of the previous fork decided to not give the Cargo Plane an equipment grid. It would be helpful to turn the cargo plane into something capable of constructing outposts. It's an interesting idea.
Oh, it's may because that I played with "better cargo planes", more than the cargo t3 with some shield, battery, and full of lasers turrets, was just better to destroy than else planes, cause we could put more shield and MORE DAMAGE XD.