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bush airplane
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a relatively light aircraft flown by a bush pilot and used to carry freight and passengers to isolated points in the northern bush and barrens and usually equipped with pontoons or skis.
See: bush plane
Quotations
1958
Before the drone of the first bush airplane shattered the ageless silence . . . almost all movement in the north relied on the dog-team. . . .