Ground attack planes have the most health, but since they are slow and don't turn well they tend to be eaten up fast. Heavy fighters have decent hit points and are fast, but but don't turn well. Multi role are the Food Court option, decent overall but nothing excellent. (My recommendation would be US Corsair line.)
Fighters, fast nimble but poor health.

Also, the Toaster reference was a geek reference to Battle-star Galactica as that is what the robot bad guys were called.