bush pilot

American  

noun

1. a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes.

   Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.

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Etymology

Origin of bush pilot

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Perhaps my favorite Amos role was as bush pilot Buzz Washington in the 2006 Alaska-set Anne Heche comedy “Men in Trees.”

From Los Angeles Times

In the 1970s, geologists confirmed what a local bush pilot long suspected: The red-stained creeks that veined the tundra hinted at a massive mineral deposit.

From Salon

Just down the beach, another setnet site was worked by the family of bush pilot Jay Hammond, who later would be a two-term Alaska governor from 1974 to 1982, during the start of the oil pipeline boom.

From Seattle Times

He took a freight plane to Nome, then found a bush pilot to fly him to Brevig Mission, on the western end of the Seward Peninsula, with no roads leading in or out.

From Washington Post

On learning his long-estranged father has died, he flies his family — he’s also an accomplished bush pilot — back to his old haunts, where there are apparently copious wide, flat, smooth straightaways that will serve for landing strips.

From Los Angeles Times