DCHP-3

bush airplane

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the 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.

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. . . .