lightplane

[lahyt-pleyn]

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noun

a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.

Origin of lightplane

First recorded in 1920–25; light² + (air)plane

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Joe kept it at an altitude of about six feet until the lightplane was air-borne.
Frigid Fracas
Dallas McCord Reynolds
They had cut away from the lightplane and Joe headed for the area which Cogswell had ordered him particularly to keep scanned.
Frigid Fracas
Dallas McCord Reynolds