lightplane

[lahyt-pleyn]

noun

1. a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lightplane¹

First recorded in 1920–25; light ² + (air)plane

Example Sentences

They answered his salute and stared after him as he climbed into the sailplane and signaled to the pilot of the lightplane which was to tow him into the air.

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Joe kept it at an altitude of about six feet until the lightplane was air-borne.

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They had cut away from the lightplane and Joe headed for the area which Cogswell had ordered him particularly to keep scanned.

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