lightplane
[ lahyt-pleyn ]
noun
a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.
Origin of lightplane
1First recorded in 1920–25; light2 + (air)plane
Words Nearby lightplane
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How to use lightplane in a sentence
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 ReynoldsJoe kept it at an altitude of about six feet until the lightplane was air-borne.
Frigid Fracas | Dallas McCord Reynolds
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