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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 aircraft,bush airplane

Quotations

1953

Pilot Johnny Dapp made the trip in a ski-equipped bush-plane. . . .

1965

. . . that's a mighty large hunk of flying time, especially when it's piled up in bush planes, where you can't lock the aircraft on the beam. . . .